NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools AL

Best-Resourced Schools in Enterprise, AL

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

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9
Schools
6,612
Students
36/100
Avg Resource Index
18.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Enterprise has more public-school enrollment than 67% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Enterprise's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

5 of Enterprise's 9 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 2 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 19-point gap between Pinedale Elementary School and Dauphin Junior High School shows the range hidden by Enterprise'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 33%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
28th percentile
Teacher staffing
20th percentile

Enterprise High School accounts for 32.9% of all Enterprise public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Enterprise-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

Enterprise school enrollment varies 6.2× across entities

Enterprise school enrollment ranges from 350 students (lowest) to 2,177 students (highest), a spread of 1,827 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

Enterprise operates one school district — a single-district system

Enterprise'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

Enterprise student-teacher ratio is 18.9:1 — 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

# School Score
1. Pinedale Elementary School 43
2. Holly Hill Elementary School 41
3. Harrand Creek Elementary School 40
4. Rucker Boulevard Elementary School 39
5. Enterprise High School 38
6. Brookwood Elementary School 38
7. Hillcrest Elementary School 36
8. Coppinville School 25
9. Dauphin Junior High School 24

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Enterprise

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 Rucker Boulevard Elementary School 70.3/100
  2. 2 Harrand Creek Elementary School 69.8/100
  3. 3 Pinedale Elementary School 68.6/100
  4. 4 Hillcrest Elementary School 64.9/100
  5. 5 Brookwood Elementary School 63.5/100

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Which Enterprise school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Pinedale Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Enterprise schools in this federal-data comparison at 43/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Enterprise, AL? ▼

Enterprise has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,612 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 18.9:1.

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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.