NCES CCD 2024-25 26 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Fullerton, CA

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

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26
Schools
18,906
Students
40.7/100
Avg Resource Index
24:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Fullerton has more public-school enrollment than 92% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Fullerton 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

18 of Fullerton's 26 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 5 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

Fullerton's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 49th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 3rd percentile. The 46-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 8%
School count
Top 10%
Resource Index average
49th percentile
Teacher staffing
3rd percentile

Fullerton school enrollment varies 11× across entities

Fullerton school enrollment ranges from 236 students (lowest) to 2,504 students (highest), a spread of 2,268 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 NCES Common Core of Data

Fullerton student-teacher ratio is 24.0:1 — 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. Laguna Road Elementary 53
2. Hermosa Drive Elementary 53
3. Acacia Elementary 52
4. La Vista High (Continuation) 50
5. Fern Drive Elementary 48
6. Sunset Lane Elementary 47
7. Raymond Elementary 47
8. La Sierra High (Alternative) 47
9. Golden Hill School for Creative & Performing Arts 46
10. Beechwood Elementary 43
11. Richman Elementary 43
12. Maple Elementary 43
13. Robert C. Fisler Elementary 41
14. Pacific Drive Elementary 41
15. Rolling Hills Elementary 41
16. Orangethorpe Elementary 41
17. Valencia Park Elementary 41
18. D. Russell Parks Junior High 37
19. Commonwealth Elementary 35
20. Woodcrest Elementary 34
21. Troy High 33
22. Ladera Vista Junior High School of the Arts 33
23. Nicolas Junior High 33
24. Sunny Hills High 29
25. Topaz Elementary 28
26. Fullerton Union High 20

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Fullerton

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 Acacia Elementary 73.0/100
  2. 2 Beechwood Elementary 67.8/100
  3. 3 D. Russell Parks Junior High 67.8/100
  4. 4 Rolling Hills Elementary 65.7/100
  5. 5 Fern Drive Elementary 65.3/100

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Which Fullerton school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Laguna Road Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Fullerton schools in this federal-data comparison at 53/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Fullerton, CA? ▼

Fullerton has 26 public schools with a total enrollment of 18,906 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 24:1.

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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.