NCES CCD 2024-25 13 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Valencia, CA

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

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13
Schools
11,730
Students
38/100
Avg Resource Index
26.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Valencia has more public-school enrollment than 84% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Valencia 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

9 of Valencia's 13 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.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Valencia's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 37th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 1st percentile. The 36-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 16%
School count
Top 28%
Resource Index average
37th percentile
Teacher staffing
1st percentile

Valencia High accounts for 19.5% of all Valencia public-school enrollment

That concentration means Valencia-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

Valencia school enrollment varies 5.2× across entities

Valencia school enrollment ranges from 441 students (lowest) to 2,286 students (highest), a spread of 1,845 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

Valencia student-teacher ratio is 26.2:1 — 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. West Creek Academy 52
2. Charles Helmers Elementary 52
3. Bridgeport Elementary 47
4. Tesoro Del Valle Elementary 47
5. North Park Elementary 43
6. Oak Hills Elementary 38
7. West Ranch High 36
8. Meadows Elementary 36
9. Valencia Valley Elementary 35
10. Old Orchard Elementary 31
11. Valencia High 28
12. Arroyo Seco Junior High 28
13. Opportunities for Learning - William S. Hart 21

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Valencia

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 Tesoro Del Valle Elementary 75.5/100
  2. 2 Bridgeport Elementary 73.9/100
  3. 3 Oak Hills Elementary 73.5/100
  4. 4 West Creek Academy 73.2/100
  5. 5 West Ranch High 72.5/100

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Which Valencia school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

West Creek Academy has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Valencia schools in this federal-data comparison at 52/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Valencia, CA? ▼

Valencia has 13 public schools with a total enrollment of 11,730 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 26.2:1.

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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.