NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools AL

Best-Resourced Schools in Vestavia Hills, AL

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7 public K-12 schools in Vestavia Hills 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
5,289
Students
52.7/100
Avg Resource Index
16:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Vestavia Hills has more public-school enrollment than 58% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Vestavia Hills's 7 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

5 of Vestavia Hills'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.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Vestavia Hills's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 93rd percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 11-point gap between Vestavia Hills High School Freshman Campus and East Elementary measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 42%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
93rd percentile
Teacher staffing
43rd percentile

Vestavia Hills High School accounts for 30.7% of all Vestavia Hills public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Vestavia Hills-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

Vestavia Hills school enrollment varies 3.6× across entities

Vestavia Hills school enrollment ranges from 451 students (lowest) to 1,625 students (highest), a spread of 1,174 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

Vestavia Hills operates one school district — a single-district system

Vestavia Hills'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

Vestavia Hills student-teacher ratio is 16.0:1 — 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 Vestavia Hills is typically wider than the Vestavia Hills-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Vestavia Hills High School Freshman Campus 59
2. Vestavia Hills High School 58
3. Vestavia Hills Elementary Cahaba Heights 52
4. Vestavia Hills Elementary Dolly Ridge 51
5. Liberty Park Elementary 51
6. West Elementary 50
7. East Elementary 48

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Vestavia Hills

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 West Elementary 41.7/100
  2. 2 Liberty Park Elementary 33.7/100
  3. 3 Vestavia Hills Elementary Cahaba Heights 33.6/100
  4. 4 Vestavia Hills High School Freshman Campus 32.4/100
  5. 5 Vestavia Hills High School 32.3/100

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Which Vestavia Hills school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Vestavia Hills High School Freshman Campus has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Vestavia Hills 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 Vestavia Hills, AL? ▼

Vestavia Hills has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,289 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16:1.

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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.