NCES CCD 2024-25 10 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Culver City, CA

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

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10
Schools
7,612
Students
35.4/100
Avg Resource Index
21.4:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Culver City has more public-school enrollment than 72% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Culver City'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

8 of Culver City's 10 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 34-point gap between Culver City Middle and La Ballona Elementary shows the range hidden by Culver City'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 28%
School count
Top 41%
Resource Index average
27th percentile
Teacher staffing
10th percentile

Culver City High accounts for 26.4% of all Culver City public-school enrollment

That concentration means Culver City-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

Culver City school enrollment varies 7.8× across entities

Culver City school enrollment ranges from 258 students (lowest) to 2,012 students (highest), a spread of 1,754 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

Culver City student-teacher ratio is 21.4:1 — 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. Culver City Middle 49
2. Playa Del Rey Elementary 47
3. Braddock Drive Elementary 41
4. El Marino Elementary 40
5. Stoner Avenue Elementary 38
6. Culver City High 33
7. Farragut Elementary 33
8. Linwood E. Howe Elementary 30
9. El Rincon Elementary 28
10. La Ballona Elementary 15

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Culver City

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 El Rincon Elementary 78.6/100
  2. 2 Culver City Middle 75.4/100
  3. 3 Farragut Elementary 75.3/100
  4. 4 Playa Del Rey Elementary 74.0/100
  5. 5 Culver City High 73.8/100

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Which Culver City school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Culver City Middle has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Culver City schools in this federal-data comparison at 49/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Culver City, CA? ▼

Culver City has 10 public schools with a total enrollment of 7,612 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 21.4:1.

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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.