NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Parlier, CA

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

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8
Schools
3,715
Students
25.5/100
Avg Resource Index
21.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Parlier has more public-school enrollment than 40% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Parlier'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

5 of Parlier's 8 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.

Economic need crosses separate district systems

86.6% of enrollment in reporting Parlier schools is eligible for free lunch, while the city list spans 2 districts. That pairing makes a citywide average especially easy to misread: the need measure follows students, but staffing decisions, calendars, program rules, and federal allocations are administered through separate district structures. The 35-point gap between Riverview Elementary and John C Martinez Elementary shows how much reported resource capacity can vary inside the same municipal label. Compare schools within the same district first, then use the city view to see how those local systems differ.

City enrollment
Top 60%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
4th percentile
Teacher staffing
11th percentile

Parlier High accounts for 24.3% of all Parlier public-school enrollment

That concentration means Parlier-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

Parlier school enrollment varies 18× across entities

Parlier school enrollment ranges from 50 students (lowest) to 901 students (highest), a spread of 851 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

Parlier reports 86.6% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share is at least 75%, indicating a high concentration of measured economic need. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Parlier 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

# School Score
1. Riverview Elementary 48
2. San Joaquin Valley High 44
3. Parlier High 29
4. Parlier Junior High 20
5. S Ben Benavidez Elementary 19
6. Cesar E Chavez Elementary 18
7. John C Martinez Elementary 13
8. Mathew J Brletic Elementary 13

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Parlier

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 Riverview Elementary 32.7/100
  2. 2 Cesar E Chavez Elementary 6.2/100
  3. 3 Mathew J Brletic Elementary 4.3/100
  4. 4 John C Martinez Elementary 4.1/100
  5. 5 Parlier High 3.2/100

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Which Parlier school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Riverview Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Parlier schools in this federal-data comparison at 48/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Parlier, CA? ▼

Parlier has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,715 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.