NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools AL

Best-Resourced Schools in Boaz, AL

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7 public K-12 schools in Boaz from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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7
Schools
3,373
Students
40.9/100
Avg Resource Index
19:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Boaz has more public-school enrollment than 34% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Boaz sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

3 of Boaz's 7 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

High measured need meets a thin staffing ratio

Boaz's reporting schools show 65.5% free-lunch eligibility across measured enrollment, alongside an average 19.0:1 student-teacher ratio. These are separate constraints: one describes the economic context of enrolled students and the other compares student and teacher headcounts. The 15-point gap between Boaz Intermediate School and Boaz Elementary School is therefore more useful than the city mean alone. A school with a similar ratio may still report different counselor access, attendance, or gifted-program availability, so open the campus records before drawing conclusions about student support.

City enrollment
Top 66%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
50th percentile
Teacher staffing
20th percentile

Boaz High School accounts for 21.4% of all Boaz public-school enrollment

That concentration means Boaz-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data

Boaz school enrollment varies 2.1× across entities

Boaz school enrollment ranges from 343 students (lowest) to 721 students (highest), a spread of 378 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data

Boaz reports 65.5% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data

Boaz student-teacher ratio is 19.0:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Boaz Intermediate School 46
2. Corley Elementary School 45
3. Whitesboro Elementary School 45
4. Boaz Middle School 40
5. Carlisle Elementary School 40
6. Boaz High School 39
7. Boaz Elementary School 31

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Boaz

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Corley Elementary School 58.4/100
  2. 2 Boaz Elementary School 57.4/100
  3. 3 Boaz High School 57.2/100
  4. 4 Boaz Intermediate School 56.9/100
  5. 5 Boaz Middle School 56.8/100

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Which Boaz school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Boaz Intermediate School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Boaz schools in this federal-data comparison at 46/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Boaz, AL? ▼

Boaz has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,373 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 19:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.