NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools AL

Best-Resourced Schools in Daphne, AL

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

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8
Schools
6,115
Students
38.3/100
Avg Resource Index
16.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Daphne has more public-school enrollment than 64% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Daphne 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.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Daphne's list includes 2 elementary, 1 middle, and 2 high-school campuses, plus 3 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 32-point gap between Baldwin County Elementary Virtual School and Daphne High School shows the range hidden by Daphne's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 36%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
38th percentile
Teacher staffing
37th percentile

Daphne High School accounts for 26.8% of all Daphne public-school enrollment

That concentration means Daphne-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

Daphne school enrollment varies 7.6× across entities

Daphne school enrollment ranges from 216 students (lowest) to 1,639 students (highest), a spread of 1,423 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

Daphne operates one school district — a single-district system

Daphne's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

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

Daphne student-teacher ratio is 16.6:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

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 Variation between sub-units within Daphne is typically wider than the Daphne-aggregate figure suggests.

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

# School Score
1. Baldwin County Elementary Virtual School 59
2. Baldwin County Virtual School 46
3. W J Carroll Intermediate School 42
4. Belforest Elementary School 35
5. Daphne East Elementary School 35
6. Daphne Elementary School 33
7. Daphne Middle School 29
8. Daphne High School 27

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Daphne

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 Daphne Elementary School 58.1/100
  2. 2 Daphne East Elementary School 57.6/100
  3. 3 Daphne High School 55.2/100
  4. 4 Daphne Middle School 53.1/100
  5. 5 W J Carroll Intermediate School 51.9/100

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Which Daphne school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Baldwin County Elementary Virtual School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Daphne schools in this federal-data comparison at 59/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Daphne, AL? ▼

Daphne has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,115 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.6:1.

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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.