NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Piedmont, CA

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6 public K-12 schools in Piedmont 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
2,447
Students
53.5/100
Avg Resource Index
17:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Piedmont has more public-school enrollment than 20% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Piedmont's 6 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

3 of Piedmont'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 2 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Piedmont lists only 6 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 61 to 733 students, a 12-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 80%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
94th percentile
Teacher staffing
33rd percentile

Piedmont High accounts for 30.0% of all Piedmont public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Piedmont-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

Piedmont school enrollment varies 12× across entities

Piedmont school enrollment ranges from 61 students (lowest) to 733 students (highest), a spread of 672 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

Piedmont operates one school district — a single-district system

Piedmont'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

Piedmont student-teacher ratio is 17.0:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

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 Variation between sub-units within Piedmont is typically wider than the Piedmont-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Millennium High Alternative 62
2. Piedmont High 57
3. Piedmont Middle 56
4. Wildwood Elementary 52
5. Beach Elementary 49
6. Havens Elementary 45

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Piedmont

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 Millennium High Alternative 73.3/100
  2. 2 Beach Elementary 68.0/100
  3. 3 Wildwood Elementary 67.7/100
  4. 4 Piedmont Middle 67.3/100
  5. 5 Piedmont High 64.8/100

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Which Piedmont school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Millennium High Alternative has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Piedmont schools in this federal-data comparison at 62/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Piedmont, CA? ▼

Piedmont has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,447 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 17:1.

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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.