NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools GA

Best-Resourced Schools in Commerce, GA

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

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7
Schools
4,465
Students
40.1/100
Avg Resource Index
14.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Commerce has more public-school enrollment than 50% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Commerce 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.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

3 of Commerce's 7 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 East Jackson Elementary School and East Jackson Comprehensive High School shows the range hidden by Commerce'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 50%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
46th percentile
Teacher staffing
58th percentile

East Jackson Comprehensive High School accounts for 31.2% of all Commerce public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Commerce-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Combined. 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

Commerce school enrollment varies 4.5× across entities

Commerce school enrollment ranges from 308 students (lowest) to 1,395 students (highest), a spread of 1,087 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

Commerce student-teacher ratio is 14.7:1 — 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 Commerce is typically wider than the Commerce-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. East Jackson Elementary School 47
2. East Jackson Middle School 42
3. Commerce Elementary School 41
4. Commerce Primary 40
5. Commerce Middle School 39
6. Commerce High School 39
7. East Jackson Comprehensive High School 33

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Commerce

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 Commerce Elementary School 56.8/100
  2. 2 Commerce Primary 56.1/100
  3. 3 Commerce Middle School 55.5/100
  4. 4 Commerce High School 54.3/100
  5. 5 East Jackson Comprehensive High School 53.7/100

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Which Commerce school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

East Jackson Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Commerce schools in this federal-data comparison at 47/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Commerce, GA? ▼

Commerce has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,465 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.7:1.

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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.