NCES CCD 2024-25 10 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Fair Oaks, CA

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10 public K-12 schools in Fair Oaks 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
6,384
Students
34.4/100
Avg Resource Index
22.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Fair Oaks has more public-school enrollment than 66% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Fair Oaks'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.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Fair Oaks's list includes 4 elementary, 1 middle, and 3 high-school campuses, plus 2 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Fair Oaks lists only 10 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 28 to 1,939 students, a 69-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 34%
School count
Top 41%
Resource Index average
23rd percentile
Teacher staffing
7th percentile

Bella Vista High accounts for 30.4% of all Fair Oaks public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Fair Oaks-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

Fair Oaks school enrollment varies 69× across entities

Fair Oaks school enrollment ranges from 28 students (lowest) to 1,939 students (highest), a spread of 1,911 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

Fair Oaks operates one school district — a single-district system

Fair Oaks'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

Fair Oaks student-teacher ratio is 22.2:1 — 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. La Vista Center 79
2. El Sereno Alternative Education 61
3. Meraki High 33
4. Bella Vista High 28
5. Del Campo High 28
6. Harry Dewey Fundamental Elementary 27
7. Earl Legette Elementary 25
8. Orangevale Open K-8 25
9. Will Rogers Middle 22
10. Northridge Elementary 16

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Fair Oaks

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 La Vista Center 73.5/100
  2. 2 Northridge Elementary 69.2/100
  3. 3 Will Rogers Middle 68.6/100
  4. 4 Del Campo High 66.3/100
  5. 5 El Sereno Alternative Education 61.2/100

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Which Fair Oaks school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

La Vista Center has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Fair Oaks schools in this federal-data comparison at 79/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Fair Oaks, CA? ▼

Fair Oaks has 10 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,384 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 22.2:1.

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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.