NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Saugus, CA

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8 public K-12 schools in Saugus 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
7,008
Students
41.4/100
Avg Resource Index
27.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Saugus has more public-school enrollment than 69% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Saugus sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

7 of Saugus'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 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

Saugus's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 52nd percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 1st percentile. The 51-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 31%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
52nd percentile
Teacher staffing
1st percentile

Saugus High accounts for 33.1% of all Saugus public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Saugus-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

Saugus school enrollment varies 9.1× across entities

Saugus school enrollment ranges from 254 students (lowest) to 2,317 students (highest), a spread of 2,063 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

Saugus student-teacher ratio is 27.1:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)

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 Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Emblem Academy 47
2. Mountainview Elementary 46
3. Plum Canyon Elementary 46
4. James Foster Elementary 44
5. Highlands Elementary 42
6. Rosedell Elementary 39
7. Santa Clarita Elementary 37
8. Saugus High 30

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Saugus

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 Emblem Academy 74.2/100
  2. 2 Plum Canyon Elementary 72.8/100
  3. 3 Saugus High 66.0/100
  4. 4 James Foster Elementary 64.9/100
  5. 5 Rosedell Elementary 63.7/100

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Which Saugus school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Emblem Academy has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Saugus 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 Saugus, CA? ▼

Saugus has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 7,008 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 27.1:1.

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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.