NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Winton, CA

Compiled from official source data by PlainSchools. · Updated August 2026

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

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Schools

2,102

Students

15.4/100

Avg Resource Index

23.1:1

Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Winton has more public-school enrollment than 14% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Winton's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

4 of Winton's 5 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 0 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Economic need crosses separate district systems

81.3% of enrollment in reporting Winton 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 6-point gap between Sybil N. Crookham Elementary and Frank Sparkes Elementary 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.

City enrollment: Top 86%
School count: Top 99%
Resource Index average: 1st percentile
Teacher staffing: 5th percentile

Winton Middle accounts for 27.5% of all Winton public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Winton-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Middle. 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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Winton reports 81.3% 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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Winton student-teacher ratio is 23.1:1 — 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 Accessed 2026-08-26

#	School	Score	Enrollment	Level	District
1.	Sybil N. Crookham Elementary	19	362	elementary	Winton
2.	Washington Elementary	17	295	elementary	Merced River Union Elementary
3.	Winton Middle	14	579	middle	Winton
4.	Winfield Elementary	14	444	elementary	Winton
5.	Frank Sparkes Elementary	13	422	elementary	Winton

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Winton

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.

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Which Winton school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Sybil N. Crookham Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Winton schools in this federal-data comparison at 19/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Winton, CA? ▼

Winton has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,102 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 23.1:1.

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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.