NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools GA

Best-Resourced Schools in Rossville, GA

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7 public K-12 schools in Rossville 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
4,089
Students
41/100
Avg Resource Index
11.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Rossville has more public-school enrollment than 45% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Rossville 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 Rossville'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.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Rossville's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 50th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 90th percentile. The 40-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 55%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
50th percentile
Teacher staffing
90th percentile

Ridgeland High School accounts for 31.4% of all Rossville public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Rossville-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

Rossville school enrollment varies 3.7× across entities

Rossville school enrollment ranges from 346 students (lowest) to 1,284 students (highest), a spread of 938 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

Rossville reports 63.8% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. 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

Rossville student-teacher ratio is 11.8:1 — 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. Cloud Springs Elementary School 55
2. Rossville Middle School 47
3. Lakeview Middle School 44
4. Ridgeland High School 37
5. Stone Creek Elementary School 37
6. Rossville Elementary School 37
7. West Side Elementary School 30

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Rossville

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 Rossville Elementary School 53.7/100
  2. 2 Rossville Middle School 51.7/100
  3. 3 West Side Elementary School 49.5/100
  4. 4 Lakeview Middle School 46.5/100
  5. 5 Stone Creek Elementary School 45.5/100

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Which Rossville school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Cloud Springs Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Rossville schools in this federal-data comparison at 55/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Rossville, GA? ▼

Rossville has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,089 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.8:1.

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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.