17 public K-12 schools in Wesley Chapel from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Wesley Chapel has more public-school enrollment than 92% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Wesley Chapel sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.
8 of Wesley Chapel's 17 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.
Wesley Chapel's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 53rd percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 15th percentile. The 38-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.
Wesley Chapel school enrollment ranges from 502 students (lowest) to 2,218 students (highest), a spread of 1,716 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
Wesley Chapel'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
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.
18% of the city's listed public-school campuses are reported as charter schools in NCES CCD. Charter status identifies a different governance arrangement; it does not establish admissions availability, academic quality, or the share of city students enrolled in those campuses. Open each school record to compare enrollment and staffing directly.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Union Park Charter Academy | 59 |
| 2. | Watergrass Elementary School | 51 |
| 3. | Innovation Preparatory Academy | 48 |
| 4. | Seven Oaks Elementary School | 48 |
| 5. | Double Branch Elementary School | 46 |
| 6. | Thomas E. Weightman Middle School | 43 |
| 7. | Sand Pine Elementary School | 42 |
| 8. | Cypress Creek Middle School | 40 |
| 9. | Veterans Elementary School | 40 |
| 10. | Wiregrass Ranch High School | 38 |
| 11. | Cypress Creek High School | 38 |
| 12. | Wesley Chapel Elementary School | 38 |
| 13. | New River Elementary School | 37 |
| 14. | Pinecrest Academy Wesley Chapel | 36 |
| 15. | Wiregrass Elementary School | 36 |
| 16. | Wesley Chapel High School | 34 |
| 17. | Dr. John Long Middle School | 33 |
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.
Union Park Charter Academy has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Wesley Chapel schools in this federal-data comparison at 59/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Wesley Chapel has 17 public schools with a total enrollment of 19,694 students. 3 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 20.2:1.
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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.
