NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools CT

Best-Resourced Schools in Orange, CT

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5 public K-12 schools in Orange 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
1,633
Students
60.6/100
Avg Resource Index
12.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Orange has more public-school enrollment than 7% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Orange lands in the upper national tier on both the average Resource Investment Index and teacher staffing intensity. Those measures come from different inputs: the index combines reported counselors, gifted access, attendance, and staffing, while the staffing percentile compares the city's student-teacher ratio directly. Agreement across both measures is stronger evidence of broad reported capacity than either score alone, though neither is a test-score rating or a guarantee about an individual classroom.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

3 of Orange'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.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 20-point gap between Race Brook School and Mary L. Tracy School shows the range hidden by Orange'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 93%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
99th percentile
Teacher staffing
83rd percentile

Peck Place School accounts for 23.6% of all Orange public-school enrollment

That concentration means Orange-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

Orange student-teacher ratio is 12.6:1 — 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. Race Brook School 67
2. Turkey Hill School 67
3. Peck Place School 66
4. Amity Middle School: Orange 56
5. Mary L. Tracy School 47

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Orange

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 Amity Middle School: Orange 54.5/100
  2. 2 Race Brook School 51.4/100
  3. 3 Mary L. Tracy School 49.6/100
  4. 4 Peck Place School 48.3/100
  5. 5 Turkey Hill School 39.7/100

What do families ask about schools in Orange?

Which Orange school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Race Brook School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Orange schools in this federal-data comparison at 67/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Orange, CT? ▼

Orange has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,633 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.6:1.

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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.