NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Mountain House, CA

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

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7
Schools
7,130
Students
46/100
Avg Resource Index
23.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Mountain House has more public-school enrollment than 70% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Mountain House's 7 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

6 of Mountain House's 7 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 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

Mountain House's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 74th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 5th percentile. The 69-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 30%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
74th percentile
Teacher staffing
5th percentile

Mountain House High accounts for 34.1% of all Mountain House public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Mountain House-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

Mountain House school enrollment varies 3.9× across entities

Mountain House school enrollment ranges from 616 students (lowest) to 2,428 students (highest), a spread of 1,812 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 NCES Common Core of Data

Mountain House operates one school district — a single-district system

Mountain House'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

Mountain House student-teacher ratio is 23.2:1 — 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. Sebastian Questa Elementary 52
2. Hansen Elementary 50
3. Altamont Elementary 50
4. Julius Cordes Elementary 49
5. Bethany Elementary 49
6. Wicklund Elementary 41
7. Mountain House High 31

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Mountain House

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 Bethany Elementary 69.2/100
  2. 2 Altamont Elementary 67.9/100
  3. 3 Wicklund Elementary 66.9/100
  4. 4 Mountain House High 57.6/100
  5. 5 Sebastian Questa Elementary 54.6/100

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Which Mountain House school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Sebastian Questa Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Mountain House schools in this federal-data comparison at 52/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Mountain House, CA? ▼

Mountain House has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 7,130 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 23.2:1.

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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.