NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Temple City, CA

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8 public K-12 schools in Temple City 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
4,935
Students
43.6/100
Avg Resource Index
20.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Temple City has more public-school enrollment than 55% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Temple City High enrolls 36.0% of Temple City'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.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

4 of Temple City'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 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

Temple City lists only 8 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 28 to 1,779 students, a 64-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 45%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
63rd percentile
Teacher staffing
12th percentile

Temple City High accounts for 36.0% of all Temple City public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Temple City-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

Temple City school enrollment varies 64× across entities

Temple City school enrollment ranges from 28 students (lowest) to 1,779 students (highest), a spread of 1,751 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

Temple City student-teacher ratio is 20.9:1 — 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. Dr. Doug Sears Learning Center 59
2. Oak Avenue Intermediate 53
3. Temple City Virtual Academy 51
4. Temple City High 47
5. Cloverly Elementary 39
6. Cleminson Elementary 39
7. Longden Elementary 36
8. La Rosa Elementary 25

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Temple City

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 Temple City Virtual Academy 67.1/100
  2. 2 Dr. Doug Sears Learning Center 59.4/100
  3. 3 La Rosa Elementary 50.8/100
  4. 4 Cleminson Elementary 50.3/100
  5. 5 Longden Elementary 50.2/100

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Which Temple City school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Dr. Doug Sears Learning Center has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Temple City schools in this federal-data comparison at 59/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Temple City, CA? ▼

Temple City has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,935 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 20.9:1.

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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.