NCES CCD 2024-25 18 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Manteca, CA

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

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18
Schools
16,653
Students
19/100
Avg Resource Index
24.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Manteca has more public-school enrollment than 91% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Manteca'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

14 of Manteca's 18 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 0 middle and 4 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 28-point gap between Calla High and Sequoia Elementary shows the range hidden by Manteca'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 9%
School count
Top 17%
Resource Index average
1st percentile
Teacher staffing
2nd percentile

Manteca school enrollment varies 14× across entities

Manteca school enrollment ranges from 140 students (lowest) to 1,907 students (highest), a spread of 1,767 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

Manteca operates one school district — a single-district system

Manteca'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

Manteca student-teacher ratio is 24.9:1 — 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. Calla High 38
2. Sierra High 36
3. East Union High 33
4. Veritas Elementary 29
5. Manteca High 26
6. Nile Garden Elementary 25
7. Walter Woodward Elementary 20
8. Brock Elliott Elementary 17
9. Stella Brockman Elementary 15
10. Shasta Elementary 14
11. George Mcparland Elementary 12
12. Golden West Elementary 12
13. New Haven Elementary 12
14. Neil Hafley Elementary 11
15. Joshua Cowell Elementary 11
16. Manteca Online Academy 11
17. Sequoia Elementary 10
18. Lincoln Elementary 10

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Manteca

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 Walter Woodward Elementary 71.5/100
  2. 2 Sierra High 69.1/100
  3. 3 Veritas Elementary 65.7/100
  4. 4 Stella Brockman Elementary 65.1/100
  5. 5 Joshua Cowell Elementary 64.7/100

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Which Manteca school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Calla High has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Manteca schools in this federal-data comparison at 38/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Manteca, CA? ▼

Manteca has 18 public schools with a total enrollment of 16,653 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 24.9:1.

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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.