NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools CT

Best-Resourced Schools in Guilford, CT

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

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7
Schools
3,051
Students
54.1/100
Avg Resource Index
11.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Guilford has more public-school enrollment than 30% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Guilford's 7 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.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

4 of Guilford's 7 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 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Guilford's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 95th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 13-point gap between E. C. Adams Middle School and Guilford High School measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 70%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
95th percentile
Teacher staffing
91st percentile

Guilford High School accounts for 33.0% of all Guilford public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Guilford-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

Guilford school enrollment varies 4.7× across entities

Guilford school enrollment ranges from 213 students (lowest) to 1,008 students (highest), a spread of 795 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

Guilford operates one school district — a single-district system

Guilford'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

Guilford student-teacher ratio is 11.6:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. E. C. Adams Middle School 62
2. Guilford Lakes School 55
3. A. W. Cox School 55
4. Calvin Leete School 54
5. A. Baldwin Middle School 52
6. Melissa Jones School 52
7. Guilford High School 49

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Guilford

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 Guilford Lakes School 47.2/100
  2. 2 A. W. Cox School 41.6/100
  3. 3 A. Baldwin Middle School 37.7/100
  4. 4 Calvin Leete School 37.7/100
  5. 5 Guilford High School 35.1/100

What do families ask about schools in Guilford?

Which Guilford school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

E. C. Adams Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Guilford schools in this federal-data comparison at 62/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Guilford, CT? ▼

Guilford has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,051 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.6:1.

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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.