22 public K-12 schools in Albany 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, Albany has more public-school enrollment than 86% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Albany's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.
12 of Albany's 22 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.
The 48-point gap between South Georgia Regional Achievement Center- the Phoenix and Albany Middle School shows the range hidden by Albany'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.
Albany school enrollment ranges from 73 students (lowest) to 1,234 students (highest), a spread of 1,161 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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
The reported share is above 87.5%, so economic need is widespread across the measured student population. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Albany'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 Variation between sub-units within Albany is typically wider than the Albany-aggregate figure suggests.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | South Georgia Regional Achievement Center- the Phoenix | 66 |
| 2. | International Studies Elementary Charter School | 53 |
| 3. | Lamar Reese School of the Arts | 48 |
| 4. | Lake Park Elementary School | 46 |
| 5. | Lincoln Elementary Magnet School | 44 |
| 6. | Robert a. Cross Middle Magnet | 43 |
| 7. | West Town Elementary School | 43 |
| 8. | Morningside Elementary School | 40 |
| 9. | Martin Luther King- Jr. Elementary School | 36 |
| 10. | Live Oak Elementary School | 35 |
| 11. | Turner Elementary School | 35 |
| 12. | Monroe High School | 34 |
| 13. | Northside Elementary School | 34 |
| 14. | Sherwood Acres Elementary School | 33 |
| 15. | Robert H Harvey Elementary School | 33 |
| 16. | Alice Coachman Elementary School | 31 |
| 17. | Dougherty Comprehensive High School | 30 |
| 18. | Radium Springs Elementary School | 29 |
| 19. | Westover High School | 28 |
| 20. | Merry Acres Middle School | 23 |
| 21. | Albany Middle School | 18 |
| 22. | Radium Springs Middle School | 18 |
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.
South Georgia Regional Achievement Center- the Phoenix has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Albany schools in this federal-data comparison at 66/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Albany has 22 public schools with a total enrollment of 13,231 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.2:1.
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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.
