NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools GA

Best-Resourced Schools in Leesburg, GA

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

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8
Schools
5,949
Students
47/100
Avg Resource Index
14.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Leesburg has more public-school enrollment than 63% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Leesburg 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.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Leesburg's list includes 3 elementary, 2 middle, and 2 high-school campuses, plus 1 combined-grade record. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Leesburg's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 78th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 7-point gap between Lee County Middle School East and Lee High School 9th Grade Campus measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 37%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
78th percentile
Teacher staffing
63rd percentile

Lee County High School accounts for 22.8% of all Leesburg public-school enrollment

That concentration means Leesburg-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

Leesburg school enrollment varies 2.8× across entities

Leesburg school enrollment ranges from 488 students (lowest) to 1,356 students (highest), a spread of 868 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

Leesburg operates one school district — a single-district system

Leesburg'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

Leesburg student-teacher ratio is 14.3:1 — 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 Leesburg is typically wider than the Leesburg-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Lee County Middle School East 50
2. Lee County Middle School West 49
3. Lee County High School 48
4. Lee County Primary School 48
5. Twin Oaks Elementary 47
6. Lee County Elementary School 47
7. Kinchafoonee Primary School 44
8. Lee High School 9th Grade Campus 43

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Leesburg

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 Kinchafoonee Primary School 61.9/100
  2. 2 Lee County Middle School West 60.1/100
  3. 3 Lee County High School 59.4/100
  4. 4 Lee High School 9th Grade Campus 58.5/100
  5. 5 Lee County Middle School East 58.3/100

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Which Leesburg school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Lee County Middle School East has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Leesburg schools in this federal-data comparison at 50/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Leesburg, GA? ▼

Leesburg has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,949 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.3:1.

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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.