NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Orinda, CA

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

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6
Schools
3,757
Students
44.3/100
Avg Resource Index
21.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Resource breadth with tighter class loads

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Orinda has more public-school enrollment than 40% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Orinda's average Resource Investment Index ranks above most listed cities even though its student-teacher ratio is on the more crowded side of the national city distribution. That is a useful mismatch, not a contradiction: counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance can lift the composite while classroom staffing remains comparatively tight. Families should inspect the component scores on each school profile instead of reading the city index as a shorthand for small classes.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

4 of Orinda's 6 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 1 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

Orinda's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 67th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 11th percentile. The 56-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 60%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
67th percentile
Teacher staffing
11th percentile

Miramonte High accounts for 31.1% of all Orinda public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Orinda-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

Orinda school enrollment varies 2.9× across entities

Orinda school enrollment ranges from 399 students (lowest) to 1,167 students (highest), a spread of 768 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

Orinda student-teacher ratio is 21.1:1 — 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. Glorietta Elementary 47
2. Orinda Intermediate 46
3. Del Rey Elementary 45
4. Sleepy Hollow Elementary 45
5. Wagner Ranch Elementary 42
6. Miramonte High 41

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Orinda

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 Wagner Ranch Elementary 69.4/100
  2. 2 Glorietta Elementary 65.8/100
  3. 3 Del Rey Elementary 64.2/100
  4. 4 Orinda Intermediate 63.8/100
  5. 5 Miramonte High 61.8/100

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Which Orinda school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Glorietta Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Orinda schools in this federal-data comparison at 47/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Orinda, CA? ▼

Orinda has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,757 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 21.1:1.

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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.