NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Agoura, CA

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

5
Schools
3,790
Students
28.2/100
Avg Resource Index
23.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Agoura has more public-school enrollment than 41% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Agoura High enrolls 45.1% of Agoura's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

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

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 16-point gap between Agoura High and Mariposa School of Global Education shows the range hidden by Agoura'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 59%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
9th percentile
Teacher staffing
4th percentile

Agoura High accounts for 45.1% of all Agoura public-school enrollment

That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Agoura a distant remainder — means Agoura-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

Agoura school enrollment varies 4.7× across entities

Agoura school enrollment ranges from 360 students (lowest) to 1,709 students (highest), a spread of 1,349 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

Agoura operates one school district — a single-district system

Agoura'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

Agoura student-teacher ratio is 23.9:1 — 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. Agoura High 35
2. Lindero Canyon Middle 33
3. Sumac Elementary 31
4. Willow Elementary 23
5. Mariposa School of Global Education 19

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Agoura

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 Sumac Elementary 62.0/100
  2. 2 Agoura High 53.7/100
  3. 3 Mariposa School of Global Education 51.4/100
  4. 4 Lindero Canyon Middle 49.2/100
  5. 5 Willow Elementary 44.1/100

What do families ask about schools in Agoura?

Which Agoura school has the highest Resource Investment Index?

Agoura High has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Agoura schools in this federal-data comparison at 35/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Agoura, CA?

Agoura has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,790 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 23.9:1.

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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.