NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools AL

Best-Resourced Schools in Hartselle, AL

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7 public K-12 schools in Hartselle 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
3,787
Students
49/100
Avg Resource Index
15.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Hartselle has more public-school enrollment than 41% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Hartselle 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

4 of Hartselle'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.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Hartselle's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 84th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 48th percentile. The 36-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 59%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
84th percentile
Teacher staffing
48th percentile

Hartselle High School accounts for 27.1% of all Hartselle public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Hartselle-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

Hartselle school enrollment varies 9.9× across entities

Hartselle school enrollment ranges from 104 students (lowest) to 1,027 students (highest), a spread of 923 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

Hartselle student-teacher ratio is 15.5:1 — 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 Hartselle is typically wider than the Hartselle-aggregate figure suggests.

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

# School Score
1. Sparkman Elementary School 55
2. Hartselle High School 52
3. Barkley Bridge Elementary School 52
4. Hartselle Junior High School 51
5. Fe Burleson Elementary School 47
6. Crestline Elementary School 44
7. Hartselle Intermediate School 42

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Hartselle

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 Fe Burleson Elementary School 35.3/100
  2. 2 Hartselle Junior High School 24.8/100
  3. 3 Hartselle Intermediate School 24.1/100
  4. 4 Crestline Elementary School 23.8/100
  5. 5 Hartselle High School 23.5/100

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Which Hartselle school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Sparkman Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Hartselle schools in this federal-data comparison at 55/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Hartselle, AL? ▼

Hartselle has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,787 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.5:1.

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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.