NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools GA

Best-Resourced Schools in Lyons, GA

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

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5
Schools
3,118
Students
32.4/100
Avg Resource Index
14.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Lyons has more public-school enrollment than 30% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Lyons's 5 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

2 of Lyons's 5 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 composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Lyons's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 18th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 65th percentile. The 47-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.

City enrollment
Top 70%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
18th percentile
Teacher staffing
65th percentile

Toombs County High School accounts for 28.7% of all Lyons public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Lyons-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

Lyons reports 86.6% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share is at least 75%, indicating a high concentration of measured economic need. 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

Lyons operates one school district — a single-district system

Lyons'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

Lyons student-teacher ratio is 14.2:1 — 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 Lyons is typically wider than the Lyons-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Lyons Upper Elementary 40
2. Toombs Central Elementary School 34
3. Lyons Primary School 32
4. Toombs County Middle School 29
5. Toombs County High School 27

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Lyons

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 Lyons Primary School 68.1/100
  2. 2 Lyons Upper Elementary 67.9/100
  3. 3 Toombs County High School 65.6/100
  4. 4 Toombs County Middle School 65.4/100
  5. 5 Toombs Central Elementary School 44.1/100

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Which Lyons school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Lyons Upper Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Lyons schools in this federal-data comparison at 40/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Lyons, GA? ▼

Lyons has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,118 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.2:1.

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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.