NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools FL

Best-Resourced Schools in Loxahatchee, FL

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

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6
Schools
5,620
Students
38/100
Avg Resource Index
17.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Loxahatchee has more public-school enrollment than 60% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Seminole Ridge Community High School enrolls 40.0% of Loxahatchee'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

4 of Loxahatchee's 6 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.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 12-point gap between Osceola Creek Middle School and Frontier Elementary School shows the range hidden by Loxahatchee'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 40%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
37th percentile
Teacher staffing
31st percentile

Seminole Ridge Community High School accounts for 40.0% of all Loxahatchee public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Loxahatchee-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

Loxahatchee school enrollment varies 3.9× across entities

Loxahatchee school enrollment ranges from 569 students (lowest) to 2,246 students (highest), a spread of 1,677 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

Loxahatchee operates one school district — a single-district system

Loxahatchee'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

Loxahatchee student-teacher ratio is 17.3:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

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 Variation between sub-units within Loxahatchee is typically wider than the Loxahatchee-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Osceola Creek Middle School 44
2. Seminole Ridge Community High School 43
3. Loxahatchee Groves Elementary 37
4. Pierce Hammock Elementary School 36
5. Acreage Pines Elementary School 36
6. Frontier Elementary School 32

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Loxahatchee

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 Seminole Ridge Community High School 67.5/100
  2. 2 Osceola Creek Middle School 67.1/100
  3. 3 Pierce Hammock Elementary School 67.1/100
  4. 4 Acreage Pines Elementary School 64.6/100
  5. 5 Frontier Elementary School 64.1/100

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Which Loxahatchee school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Osceola Creek Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Loxahatchee schools in this federal-data comparison at 44/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Loxahatchee, FL? ▼

Loxahatchee has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,620 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 17.3:1.

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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.