NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Albany, CA

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

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6
Schools
3,684
Students
38/100
Avg Resource Index
24.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Albany has more public-school enrollment than 39% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Albany's 6 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 Albany's 6 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 2 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Albany lists only 6 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 4 to 1,122 students, a 281-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 61%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
37th percentile
Teacher staffing
3rd percentile

Albany High accounts for 30.5% of all Albany public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Albany-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

Albany school enrollment varies 281× across entities

Albany school enrollment ranges from 4 students (lowest) to 1,122 students (highest), a spread of 1,118 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. 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

Albany operates one school district — a single-district system

Albany'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

Albany student-teacher ratio is 24.1:1 — 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. Macgregor High (Continuation) 43
2. Albany Middle 42
3. Albany High 39
4. Cornell Elementary 37
5. Marin Elementary 36
6. Ocean View Elementary 31

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Albany

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 Albany Middle 75.8/100
  2. 2 Marin Elementary 75.8/100
  3. 3 Ocean View Elementary 75.2/100
  4. 4 Albany High 75.0/100
  5. 5 Cornell Elementary 73.9/100

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Which Albany school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Macgregor High (Continuation) has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Albany schools in this federal-data comparison at 43/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Albany, CA? ▼

Albany has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,684 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 24.1:1.

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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.