NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Cypress, CA

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

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8
Schools
8,053
Students
42.4/100
Avg Resource Index
24.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Cypress has more public-school enrollment than 74% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Cypress sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

5 of Cypress's 8 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.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Cypress's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 57th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 2nd percentile. The 55-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 26%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
57th percentile
Teacher staffing
2nd percentile

Cypress High accounts for 33.3% of all Cypress public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Cypress-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

Cypress school enrollment varies 6.2× across entities

Cypress school enrollment ranges from 431 students (lowest) to 2,685 students (highest), a spread of 2,254 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 NCES Common Core of Data

Cypress student-teacher ratio is 24.6:1 — 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. Margaret Landell Elementary 50
2. Frank Vessels Elementary 45
3. Oxford Academy 44
4. Lexington Junior High 42
5. Juliet Morris Elementary 42
6. A. E. Arnold Elementary 42
7. Clara J. King Elementary 38
8. Cypress High 36

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Cypress

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 Frank Vessels Elementary 72.9/100
  2. 2 A. E. Arnold Elementary 71.4/100
  3. 3 Lexington Junior High 71.1/100
  4. 4 Cypress High 70.0/100
  5. 5 Juliet Morris Elementary 69.7/100

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Which Cypress school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Margaret Landell Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Cypress schools in this federal-data comparison at 50/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Cypress, CA? ▼

Cypress has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 8,053 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 24.6:1.

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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.