NCES CCD 2024-25 14 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Dublin, CA

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

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14
Schools
11,850
Students
34.7/100
Avg Resource Index
20.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Dublin has more public-school enrollment than 84% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Dublin'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 Dublin's 14 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 2 middle and 3 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 52-point gap between York Alternative Learning Center and James Dougherty Elementary shows the range hidden by Dublin'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 16%
School count
Top 25%
Resource Index average
24th percentile
Teacher staffing
12th percentile

Dublin High accounts for 23.4% of all Dublin public-school enrollment

That concentration means Dublin-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

Dublin school enrollment varies 396× across entities

Dublin school enrollment ranges from 7 students (lowest) to 2,771 students (highest), a spread of 2,764 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

Dublin operates one school district — a single-district system

Dublin'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 NCES Common Core of Data

Dublin student-teacher ratio is 20.9:1 — 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. York Alternative Learning Center 72
2. Valley High (Continuation) 60
3. Dublin High 43
4. Eleanor Murray Fallon 38
5. Wells Middle 38
6. Cottonwood Creek 38
7. Dublin Unified Transition Program 30
8. John Green Elementary 28
9. Frederiksen Elementary 27
10. J. M. Amador Elementary 26
11. Dublin Elementary 23
12. Murray Elementary 22
13. Harold William Kolb 21
14. James Dougherty Elementary 20

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Dublin

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 Frederiksen Elementary 72.0/100
  2. 2 Wells Middle 70.9/100
  3. 3 Valley High (Continuation) 68.7/100
  4. 4 Dublin Unified Transition Program 66.5/100
  5. 5 Dublin Elementary 64.5/100

What do families ask about schools in Dublin?

Which Dublin school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

York Alternative Learning Center has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Dublin schools in this federal-data comparison at 72/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Dublin, CA? ▼

Dublin has 14 public schools with a total enrollment of 11,850 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 20.9:1.

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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.