NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools GA

Best-Resourced Schools in Ringgold, GA

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8 public K-12 schools in Ringgold 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
6,028
Students
47.1/100
Avg Resource Index
12.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Ringgold has more public-school enrollment than 64% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Ringgold 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

Ringgold's list includes 2 elementary, 2 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.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Ringgold'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 12-point gap between Heritage Middle School and Ringgold High School 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 36%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
78th percentile
Teacher staffing
80th percentile

Heritage High School accounts for 21.0% of all Ringgold public-school enrollment

That concentration means Ringgold-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

Ringgold school enrollment varies 2.8× across entities

Ringgold school enrollment ranges from 445 students (lowest) to 1,268 students (highest), a spread of 823 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

Ringgold operates one school district — a single-district system

Ringgold'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

Ringgold student-teacher ratio is 12.9:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Heritage Middle School 53
2. Heritage High School 50
3. Ringgold Elementary School 50
4. Ringgold Middle School 48
5. Graysville Elementary School 46
6. Ringgold Primary School 45
7. Boynton Elementary School 44
8. Ringgold High School 41

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Ringgold

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 Ringgold Primary School 34.9/100
  2. 2 Graysville Elementary School 31.8/100
  3. 3 Ringgold Elementary School 31.7/100
  4. 4 Ringgold Middle School 26.4/100
  5. 5 Ringgold High School 25.2/100

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Which Ringgold school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Heritage Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Ringgold schools in this federal-data comparison at 53/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Ringgold, GA? ▼

Ringgold has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,028 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.9:1.

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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.