NCES CCD 2024-25 11 schools GA

Best-Resourced Schools in Winder, GA

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

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11
Schools
11,112
Students
34.3/100
Avg Resource Index
14.4:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Winder has more public-school enrollment than 83% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Winder's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

6 of Winder's 11 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

Winder's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 23rd percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 62nd percentile. The 39-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 17%
School count
Top 35%
Resource Index average
23rd percentile
Teacher staffing
62nd percentile

Apalachee High School accounts for 17.5% of all Winder public-school enrollment

That concentration means Winder-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

Winder school enrollment varies 3.4× across entities

Winder school enrollment ranges from 573 students (lowest) to 1,949 students (highest), a spread of 1,376 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

Winder operates one school district — a single-district system

Winder'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

Winder student-teacher ratio is 14.4:1 — 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 Winder is typically wider than the Winder-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Yargo Elementary School 41
2. Apalachee High School 39
3. Holsenbeck Elementary School 39
4. Haymon-Morris Middle School 37
5. Barrow Arts and Sciences Academy 37
6. Winder Elementary School 33
7. Westside Middle School 32
8. Winder-Barrow High School 31
9. Kennedy Elementary School 31
10. County Line Elementary School 31
11. Russell Middle School 26

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Winder

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 Yargo Elementary School 73.1/100
  2. 2 Winder Elementary School 73.1/100
  3. 3 Kennedy Elementary School 71.2/100
  4. 4 Apalachee High School 69.8/100
  5. 5 Westside Middle School 69.6/100

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Which Winder school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Yargo Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Winder schools in this federal-data comparison at 41/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Winder, GA? ▼

Winder has 11 public schools with a total enrollment of 11,112 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.4:1.

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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.