NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools AR

Best-Resourced Schools in Farmington, AR

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

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Schools
2,917
Students
46.6/100
Avg Resource Index
16.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Farmington has more public-school enrollment than 27% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Farmington's 5 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.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

3 of Farmington's 5 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 0 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Farmington's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 76th 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 16-point gap between Farmington High School and Randall G. Lynch Middle School 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 73%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
76th percentile
Teacher staffing
41st percentile

Farmington High School accounts for 23.7% of all Farmington public-school enrollment

That concentration means Farmington-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

Farmington operates one school district — a single-district system

Farmington'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

Farmington student-teacher ratio is 16.2:1 — 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 Farmington is typically wider than the Farmington-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Farmington High School 55
2. Farmington Freshman Academy 54
3. Bob Folsom Elementary School 43
4. Jerry Pop Williams Elem Sch 42
5. Randall G. Lynch Middle School 39

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Farmington

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 Bob Folsom Elementary School 41.3/100
  2. 2 Farmington High School 40.7/100
  3. 3 Farmington Freshman Academy 40.2/100
  4. 4 Jerry Pop Williams Elem Sch 40.1/100
  5. 5 Randall G. Lynch Middle School 36.8/100

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Which Farmington school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Farmington High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Farmington 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 Farmington, AR? ▼

Farmington has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,917 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.2:1.

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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.