NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools CO

Best-Resourced Schools in Bennett, CO

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5 public K-12 schools in Bennett 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
1,298
Students
36.2/100
Avg Resource Index
30.4:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Bennett has more public-school enrollment than 4% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Bennett's 5 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Bennett's list includes 2 elementary, 1 middle, and 1 high-school campus, plus 1 combined-grade record. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 15-point gap between Bennett Preschool and Bennett Elementary School shows the range hidden by Bennett's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 96%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
30th percentile
Teacher staffing
1st percentile

Bennett High School accounts for 33.2% of all Bennett public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Bennett-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

Bennett school enrollment varies 5.5× across entities

Bennett school enrollment ranges from 79 students (lowest) to 431 students (highest), a spread of 352 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

Bennett operates one school district — a single-district system

Bennett's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Bennett student-teacher ratio is 30.4:1 — 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. Bennett Preschool 43
2. Bennett Intermediate School 41
3. Bennett High School 37
4. Bennett Middle School 32
5. Bennett Elementary School 28

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Bennett

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 Bennett Intermediate School 60.0/100
  2. 2 Bennett Preschool 59.8/100
  3. 3 Bennett Elementary School 59.7/100
  4. 4 Bennett High School 56.9/100
  5. 5 Bennett Middle School 56.8/100

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Which Bennett school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Bennett Preschool has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Bennett schools in this federal-data comparison at 43/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Bennett, CO? ▼

Bennett has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,298 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 30.4:1.

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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.