NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Artesia, CA

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5 public K-12 schools in Artesia 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
2,403
Students
40.2/100
Avg Resource Index
24.4:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Artesia has more public-school enrollment than 19% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Artesia'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

4 of Artesia'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 0 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Artesia's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 46th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 3rd percentile. The 43-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 81%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
46th percentile
Teacher staffing
3rd percentile

Niemes (John H.) Elementary accounts for 26.3% of all Artesia public-school enrollment

That concentration means Artesia-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Elementary. 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

Artesia reports 53.4% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Artesia operates one school district — a single-district system

Artesia'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

Artesia student-teacher ratio is 24.4:1 — 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. Niemes (John H.) Elementary 42
2. Kennedy (John F.) Elementary 42
3. Ross (Faye) Middle 40
4. Burbank (Luther) Elementary 40
5. Elliott (William F) Elementary 37

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Artesia

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 Elliott (William F) Elementary 66.7/100
  2. 2 Burbank (Luther) Elementary 65.0/100
  3. 3 Kennedy (John F.) Elementary 63.6/100
  4. 4 Ross (Faye) Middle 58.2/100
  5. 5 Niemes (John H.) Elementary 37.0/100

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Which Artesia school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Niemes (John H.) Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Artesia schools in this federal-data comparison at 42/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Artesia, CA? ▼

Artesia has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,403 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 24.4:1.

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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.