NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools CO

Best-Resourced Schools in Buena Vista, CO

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5 public K-12 schools in Buena Vista 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
925
Students
38.2/100
Avg Resource Index
22.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Buena Vista has more public-school enrollment than 2% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Avery/Parsons Elementary School enrolls 41.4% of Buena Vista'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

2 of Buena Vista's 5 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.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Buena Vista lists only 5 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 15 to 383 students, a 26-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 98%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
38th percentile
Teacher staffing
7th percentile

Avery/Parsons Elementary School accounts for 41.4% of all Buena Vista public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Buena Vista-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Elementary. 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

Buena Vista school enrollment varies 26× across entities

Buena Vista school enrollment ranges from 15 students (lowest) to 383 students (highest), a spread of 368 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. 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

Buena Vista operates one school district — a single-district system

Buena Vista'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

Buena Vista student-teacher ratio is 22.5:1 — 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. Buena Vista Middle School 53
2. Buena Vista High School 50
3. Avery/Parsons Elementary School 38
4. Chaffee County High School 35
5. The Grove Bvsd's Early Learning Program 15

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Buena Vista

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 Chaffee County High School 58.7/100
  2. 2 The Grove Bvsd's Early Learning Program 38.1/100
  3. 3 Avery/Parsons Elementary School 35.2/100
  4. 4 Buena Vista High School 35.2/100
  5. 5 Buena Vista Middle School 30.1/100

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Which Buena Vista school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Buena Vista Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Buena Vista schools in this federal-data comparison at 53/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Buena Vista, CO? ▼

Buena Vista has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 925 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 22.5:1.

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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.