NCES CCD 2024-25 10 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Los Altos, CA

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10 public K-12 schools in Los Altos 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
6,299
Students
43/100
Avg Resource Index
19.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Los Altos has more public-school enrollment than 65% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Los Altos 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

7 of Los Altos's 10 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 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

Los Altos's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 60th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 17th percentile. The 43-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 35%
School count
Top 41%
Resource Index average
60th percentile
Teacher staffing
17th percentile

Los Altos High accounts for 34.4% of all Los Altos public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Los Altos-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

Los Altos school enrollment varies 6.7× across entities

Los Altos school enrollment ranges from 326 students (lowest) to 2,170 students (highest), a spread of 1,844 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

Los Altos student-teacher ratio is 19.7:1 — 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

1 of Los Altos's 10 listed schools are charters

10% of the city's listed public-school campuses are reported as charter schools in NCES CCD. Charter status identifies a different governance arrangement; it does not establish admissions availability, academic quality, or the share of city students enrolled in those campuses. Open each school record to compare enrollment and staffing directly.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

# School Score
1. Covington Elementary 49
2. Almond Elementary 48
3. Oak Avenue Elementary 46
4. Santa Rita Elementary 46
5. Georgina P. Blach Junior High 45
6. Loyola Elementary 45
7. Bullis Charter 41
8. Montclaire Elementary 40
9. Los Altos High 38
10. Ardis G. Egan Junior High 32

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Los Altos

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 Los Altos High 72.9/100
  2. 2 Almond Elementary 71.8/100
  3. 3 Santa Rita Elementary 71.3/100
  4. 4 Ardis G. Egan Junior High 68.5/100
  5. 5 Loyola Elementary 67.1/100

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Which Los Altos school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Covington Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Los Altos 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 Los Altos, CA? ▼

Los Altos has 10 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,299 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 19.7:1.

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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.