NCES CCD 2024-25 14 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Fountain Valley, CA

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14 public K-12 schools in Fountain Valley 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
11,465
Students
38.4/100
Avg Resource Index
24.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Fountain Valley has more public-school enrollment than 84% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Fountain Valley 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

8 of Fountain Valley'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 3 middle and 3 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

Fountain Valley's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 39th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 3rd percentile. The 36-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 16%
School count
Top 25%
Resource Index average
39th percentile
Teacher staffing
3rd percentile

Fountain Valley High accounts for 27.7% of all Fountain Valley public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Fountain Valley-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

Fountain Valley school enrollment varies 12× across entities

Fountain Valley school enrollment ranges from 263 students (lowest) to 3,171 students (highest), a spread of 2,908 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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

Fountain Valley student-teacher ratio is 24.3:1 — 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. Ethan B. Allen Elementary 49
2. Plavan (Urbain H.) Elementary 49
3. Tamura (Hisamatsu) Elementary 46
4. Los Amigos High 43
5. Vista View Middle 41
6. Courreges (Roch) Elementary 41
7. Cox (James H.) Elementary 41
8. Masuda (Kazuo) Middle 38
9. Fulton (Harry C.) Middle 38
10. James Monroe Elementary 36
11. Gisler (Robert) Elementary 35
12. Mamie L. Northcutt Elementary 28
13. Fountain Valley High 26
14. Valley Vista High 26

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Fountain Valley

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 Gisler (Robert) Elementary 73.5/100
  2. 2 Cox (James H.) Elementary 71.1/100
  3. 3 Courreges (Roch) Elementary 69.2/100
  4. 4 Masuda (Kazuo) Middle 66.3/100
  5. 5 Tamura (Hisamatsu) Elementary 64.3/100

What do families ask about schools in Fountain Valley?

Which Fountain Valley school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Ethan B. Allen Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Fountain Valley 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 Fountain Valley, CA? ▼

Fountain Valley has 14 public schools with a total enrollment of 11,465 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 24.3:1.

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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.