NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools FL

Best-Resourced Schools in Rockledge, FL

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6 public K-12 schools in Rockledge 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
3,652
Students
43.8/100
Avg Resource Index
13.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Rockledge has more public-school enrollment than 39% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Rockledge Senior High School enrolls 43.2% of Rockledge'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

3 of Rockledge'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 14-point gap between John F. Kennedy Middle School and Hans Christian Andersen Elementary School shows the range hidden by Rockledge'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 61%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
64th percentile
Teacher staffing
68th percentile

Rockledge Senior High School accounts for 43.2% of all Rockledge public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Rockledge-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

Rockledge school enrollment varies 6.0× across entities

Rockledge school enrollment ranges from 262 students (lowest) to 1,579 students (highest), a spread of 1,317 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

Rockledge operates one school district — a single-district system

Rockledge'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

Rockledge student-teacher ratio is 13.9:1 — 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. John F. Kennedy Middle School 53
2. Ralph M Williams Junior Elementary School 47
3. Ronald Mcnair Magnet Middle School 44
4. Rockledge Senior High School 41
5. Hans Christian Andersen Elementary School 39
6. Golfview Elementary Magnet School 39

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Rockledge

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 Ronald Mcnair Magnet Middle School 71.5/100
  2. 2 Golfview Elementary Magnet School 71.4/100
  3. 3 Rockledge Senior High School 69.2/100
  4. 4 John F. Kennedy Middle School 67.3/100
  5. 5 Hans Christian Andersen Elementary School 66.1/100

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Which Rockledge school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

John F. Kennedy Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Rockledge 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 Rockledge, FL? ▼

Rockledge has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,652 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.9:1.

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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.