NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools GA

Best-Resourced Schools in Tucker, GA

Compiled from official source data by PlainSchools. · Updated August 2026

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

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Schools

6,061

Students

43.6/100

Avg Resource Index

13.7:1

Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

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

5 of Tucker'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.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 21-point gap between Midvale Elementary School and Idlewood Elementary School shows the range hidden by Tucker's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment: Top 36%
School count: Top 65%
Resource Index average: 63rd percentile
Teacher staffing: 71st percentile

Tucker High School accounts for 26.6% of all Tucker public-school enrollment

That concentration means Tucker-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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Tucker school enrollment varies 4.2× across entities

Tucker school enrollment ranges from 383 students (lowest) to 1,614 students (highest), a spread of 1,231 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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Tucker reports 65.8% 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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Tucker student-teacher ratio is 13.7:1 — 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 Accessed 2026-08-26

#	School	Score	Enrollment	Level	District
1.	Midvale Elementary School	54	417	Combined	Dekalb County
2.	Livsey Elementary School	54	383	Combined	Dekalb County
3.	Brockett Elementary School	46	394	Combined	Dekalb County
4.	Tucker Middle School	42	1,173	middle	Dekalb County
5.	Tucker High School	41	1,614	high	Dekalb County
6.	Nesbit Elementary School	35	1,191	Combined	Gwinnett County
7.	Idlewood Elementary School	33	889	Combined	Dekalb County

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Tucker

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.

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Which Tucker school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Midvale Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Tucker schools in this federal-data comparison at 54/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Tucker, GA? ▼

Tucker has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,061 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.7:1.

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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.