NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Williams, CA

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6 public K-12 schools in Williams 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
1,358
Students
24.7/100
Avg Resource Index
23.4:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Williams has more public-school enrollment than 4% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Williams Junior/Senior High enrolls 43.3% of Williams'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

3 of Williams's 6 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.

Economic need crosses separate district systems

82.2% of enrollment in reporting Williams schools is eligible for free lunch, while the city list spans 2 districts. That pairing makes a citywide average especially easy to misread: the need measure follows students, but staffing decisions, calendars, program rules, and federal allocations are administered through separate district structures. The 7-point gap between Williams Upper Elementary and S. William Abel Academy shows how much reported resource capacity can vary inside the same municipal label. Compare schools within the same district first, then use the city view to see how those local systems differ.

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Williams Junior/Senior High accounts for 43.3% of all Williams public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Williams-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Combined. 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

Williams school enrollment varies 49× across entities

Williams school enrollment ranges from 12 students (lowest) to 588 students (highest), a spread of 576 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme heterogeneity inside a single city, with small specialty programs listed alongside large comprehensive campuses. 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

Williams reports 82.2% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share is at least 75%, indicating a high concentration of measured economic need. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Williams student-teacher ratio is 23.4:1 — 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. Williams Upper Elementary 27
2. Mid Valley High (Continuation) 27
3. Coastal Buttes Academy 27
4. Williams Primary Elementary 24
5. Williams Junior/Senior High 23
6. S. William Abel Academy 20

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Williams

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 S. William Abel Academy 48.2/100
  2. 2 Coastal Buttes Academy 41.7/100
  3. 3 Mid Valley High (Continuation) 26.6/100
  4. 4 Williams Primary Elementary 9.5/100
  5. 5 Williams Junior/Senior High 8.0/100

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Which Williams school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Williams Upper Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Williams schools in this federal-data comparison at 27/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Williams, CA? ▼

Williams has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,358 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 23.4:1.

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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.