NCES CCD 2024-25 14 schools AL

Best-Resourced Schools in Northport, AL

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

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14
Schools
7,446
Students
40.7/100
Avg Resource Index
18.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Northport has more public-school enrollment than 71% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Northport 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

7 of Northport's 14 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.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 25-point gap between Faucettvestavia Elementary School and Tuscaloosa County High School shows the range hidden by Northport'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 29%
School count
Top 25%
Resource Index average
49th percentile
Teacher staffing
24th percentile

Tuscaloosa County High School accounts for 21.6% of all Northport public-school enrollment

That concentration means Northport-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

Northport school enrollment varies 7.8× across entities

Northport school enrollment ranges from 205 students (lowest) to 1,607 students (highest), a spread of 1,402 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

Northport operates one school district — a single-district system

Northport'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

Northport student-teacher ratio is 18.3:1 — 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. Faucettvestavia Elementary School 52
2. Huntington Place Elementary School 46
3. Lloyd Wood Education Center 46
4. Crestmont Elementary School 45
5. Northside Middle School 44
6. Northport Intermediate School 43
7. Walker Elementary School 42
8. Collinsriverside Middle School 41
9. Echols Middle School 39
10. Matthews Elementary School 39
11. Northside High School 37
12. Flatwoods Elementary School 36
13. Northport Elementary School 33
14. Tuscaloosa County High School 27

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Northport

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 Flatwoods Elementary School 66.4/100
  2. 2 Echols Middle School 65.0/100
  3. 3 Tuscaloosa County High School 64.0/100
  4. 4 Collinsriverside Middle School 63.9/100
  5. 5 Crestmont Elementary School 60.8/100

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Which Northport school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Faucettvestavia Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Northport schools in this federal-data comparison at 52/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Northport, AL? ▼

Northport has 14 public schools with a total enrollment of 7,446 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 18.3:1.

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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.