NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Sutter Creek, CA

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

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5
Schools
1,105
Students
44/100
Avg Resource Index
14.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Sutter Creek has more public-school enrollment than 3% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Amador High enrolls 55.7% of Sutter Creek's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

2 of Sutter Creek's 5 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Sutter Creek lists only 5 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 10 to 615 students, a 62-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 97%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
65th percentile
Teacher staffing
57th percentile

Amador High accounts for 55.7% of all Sutter Creek public-school enrollment

That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Sutter Creek a distant remainder — means Sutter Creek-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. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data

Sutter Creek school enrollment varies 62× across entities

Sutter Creek school enrollment ranges from 10 students (lowest) to 615 students (highest), a spread of 605 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. 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

Sutter Creek student-teacher ratio is 14.8:1 — 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 Sutter Creek is typically wider than the Sutter Creek-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. County Community 63
2. North Star Academy 59
3. Independence High (Continuation) 57
4. Amador High 24
5. Sutter Creek Elementary 17

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Sutter Creek

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 Independence High (Continuation) 60.5/100
  2. 2 County Community 58.0/100
  3. 3 Sutter Creek Elementary 50.0/100
  4. 4 Amador High 49.2/100
  5. 5 North Star Academy 42.8/100

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Which Sutter Creek school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

County Community has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Sutter Creek schools in this federal-data comparison at 63/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Sutter Creek, CA? ▼

Sutter Creek has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,105 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.8:1.

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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.