NCES CCD 2024-25 12 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Barstow, CA

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

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12
Schools
5,752
Students
25.8/100
Avg Resource Index
22.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Barstow has more public-school enrollment than 61% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Barstow's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

7 of Barstow's 12 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.

High measured need meets a thin staffing ratio

Barstow's reporting schools show 73.0% free-lunch eligibility across measured enrollment, alongside an average 22.1:1 student-teacher ratio. These are separate constraints: one describes the economic context of enrolled students and the other compares student and teacher headcounts. The 50-point gap between Busd School of Opportunity and Barstow High is therefore more useful than the city mean alone. A school with a similar ratio may still report different counselor access, attendance, or gifted-program availability, so open the campus records before drawing conclusions about student support.

City enrollment
Top 39%
School count
Top 31%
Resource Index average
5th percentile
Teacher staffing
8th percentile

Barstow High accounts for 27.1% of all Barstow public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Barstow-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 NCES Common Core of Data

Barstow school enrollment varies 173× across entities

Barstow school enrollment ranges from 9 students (lowest) to 1,558 students (highest), a spread of 1,549 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 NCES Common Core of Data

Barstow reports 73.0% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. 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 NCES Common Core of Data

Barstow student-teacher ratio is 22.1:1 — 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 NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Busd School of Opportunity 64
2. Central High (Continuation) 52
3. Mojave River Academy - Silver Mountain 29
4. Barstow Fine Arts Academy 23
5. Skyline North Elementary 21
6. Barstow Junior High 20
7. Henderson Elementary 19
8. Crestline Elementary 19
9. Montara Elementary 18
10. Barstow Stem Academy 16
11. Cameron Elementary 15
12. Barstow High 14

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Barstow

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 Crestline Elementary 66.4/100
  2. 2 Mojave River Academy - Silver Mountain 64.0/100
  3. 3 Henderson Elementary 62.6/100
  4. 4 Cameron Elementary 61.5/100
  5. 5 Barstow Junior High 60.8/100

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Which Barstow school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Busd School of Opportunity has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Barstow schools in this federal-data comparison at 64/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Barstow, CA? ▼

Barstow has 12 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,752 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 22.1:1.

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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.