NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools AR

Best-Resourced Schools in Pea Ridge, AR

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

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5
Schools
2,670
Students
45.2/100
Avg Resource Index
18.4:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Pea Ridge has more public-school enrollment than 23% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Pea Ridge'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.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

2 of Pea Ridge's 5 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

Pea Ridge's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 71st percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 23rd percentile. The 48-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 77%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
71st percentile
Teacher staffing
23rd percentile

Pea Ridge Junior High School accounts for 24.1% of all Pea Ridge public-school enrollment

That concentration means Pea Ridge-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Combined. 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

Pea Ridge operates one school district — a single-district system

Pea Ridge'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

Pea Ridge student-teacher ratio is 18.4:1 — 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. Pea Ridge High School 53
2. Pea Ridge Intermediate School 52
3. Pea Ridge Middle School 51
4. Pea Ridge Junior High School 39
5. Pea Ridge Primary School 31

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Pea Ridge

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 Pea Ridge Intermediate School 33.6/100
  2. 2 Pea Ridge Middle School 28.5/100
  3. 3 Pea Ridge Junior High School 27.7/100
  4. 4 Pea Ridge Primary School 25.0/100
  5. 5 Pea Ridge High School 24.0/100

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Which Pea Ridge school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Pea Ridge High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Pea Ridge schools in this federal-data comparison at 53/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Pea Ridge, AR? ▼

Pea Ridge has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,670 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 18.4:1.

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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.