NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools GA

Best-Resourced Schools in Watkinsville, GA

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5 public K-12 schools in Watkinsville 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
3,648
Students
47/100
Avg Resource Index
13.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Watkinsville has more public-school enrollment than 39% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Oconee County High School enrolls 36.0% of Watkinsville's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

2 of Watkinsville'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.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Watkinsville'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 11-point gap between Oconee County Elementary School and Oconee County Middle 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 61%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
78th percentile
Teacher staffing
77th percentile

Oconee County High School accounts for 36.0% of all Watkinsville public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Watkinsville-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

Watkinsville school enrollment varies 3.3× across entities

Watkinsville school enrollment ranges from 404 students (lowest) to 1,313 students (highest), a spread of 909 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

Watkinsville operates one school district — a single-district system

Watkinsville'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

Watkinsville student-teacher ratio is 13.2:1 — 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. Oconee County Elementary School 52
2. Oconee County Primary School 51
3. Colham Ferry Elementary School 48
4. Oconee County High School 43
5. Oconee County Middle School 41

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Watkinsville

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 Oconee County Primary School 46.0/100
  2. 2 Oconee County High School 34.5/100
  3. 3 Oconee County Middle School 34.4/100
  4. 4 Oconee County Elementary School 32.4/100
  5. 5 Colham Ferry Elementary School 26.7/100

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Which Watkinsville school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Oconee County Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Watkinsville schools in this federal-data comparison at 52/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Watkinsville, GA? ▼

Watkinsville has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,648 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.2:1.

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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.