NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Aptos, CA

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6 public K-12 schools in Aptos 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
3,124
Students
34.2/100
Avg Resource Index
19.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Aptos has more public-school enrollment than 31% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Aptos High enrolls 40.8% of Aptos'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 Aptos'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

Aptos lists only 6 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 113 to 1,274 students, a 11-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 69%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
23rd percentile
Teacher staffing
19th percentile

Aptos High accounts for 40.8% of all Aptos public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Aptos-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

Aptos school enrollment varies 11× across entities

Aptos school enrollment ranges from 113 students (lowest) to 1,274 students (highest), a spread of 1,161 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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

Aptos student-teacher ratio is 19.1:1 — 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

1 of Aptos's 6 listed schools are charters

17% of the city's listed public-school campuses are reported as charter schools in NCES CCD. Charter status identifies a different governance arrangement; it does not establish admissions availability, academic quality, or the share of city students enrolled in those campuses. Open each school record to compare enrollment and staffing directly.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

# School Score
1. Delta Charter 38
2. Mar Vista Elementary 37
3. Valencia Elementary 35
4. Rio Del Mar Elementary 34
5. Aptos High 31
6. Aptos Junior High 30

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Aptos

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 Mar Vista Elementary 59.7/100
  2. 2 Delta Charter 56.4/100
  3. 3 Aptos Junior High 55.8/100
  4. 4 Aptos High 55.4/100
  5. 5 Rio Del Mar Elementary 53.7/100

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Which Aptos school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Delta Charter has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Aptos schools in this federal-data comparison at 38/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Aptos, CA? ▼

Aptos has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,124 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 19.1:1.

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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.