National city placement
Compact system under staffing pressure
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Eastman has more public-school enrollment than 25% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Eastman has fewer enrolled students than most listed city systems, but its student-teacher ratio still falls on the more crowded side of the national distribution. That pairing rules out a simple “large city” explanation for the staffing load. Campus size, grade configuration, vacancies, and district boundaries become the more relevant questions; the profiles below expose those fields school by school without turning the ratio into a quality verdict.
A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary
Eastman's list includes 1 elementary, 1 middle, and 2 high-school campuses, plus 2 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.
High measured need meets a thin staffing ratio
Eastman's reporting schools show 78.9% free-lunch eligibility across measured enrollment, alongside an average 18.0:1 student-teacher ratio. These are separate constraints: one describes the economic context of enrolled students and the other compares student and teacher headcounts. The 58-point gap between Eastman Youth Development Campus and Dac (Dodge County Achievement Center) is therefore more useful than the city mean alone. A school with a similar ratio may still report different counselor access, attendance, or gifted-program availability, so open the campus records before drawing conclusions about student support.
