NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools ID

Best-Resourced Schools in Gooding, ID

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

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6
Schools
1,497
Students
46.8/100
Avg Resource Index
14.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Gooding has more public-school enrollment than 5% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Gooding 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 Gooding's 6 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.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Gooding lists only 6 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 32 to 484 students, a 15-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 95%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
77th percentile
Teacher staffing
61st percentile

Gooding Elementary School accounts for 32.3% of all Gooding public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Gooding-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Combined. 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

Gooding school enrollment varies 15× across entities

Gooding school enrollment ranges from 32 students (lowest) to 484 students (highest), a spread of 452 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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

Gooding student-teacher ratio is 14.5:1 — 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 Gooding is typically wider than the Gooding-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

1 of Gooding's 6 listed schools are charters

17% of the city's listed public-school campuses are reported as charter schools in NCES CCD. Charter status identifies a different governance arrangement; it does not establish admissions availability, academic quality, or the share of city students enrolled in those campuses. Open each school record to compare enrollment and staffing directly.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

# School Score
1. Idaho School for the Deaf and the Blind 61
2. Gooding Alternative Learing Center 53
3. Gooding Middle School 52
4. Gooding High School 41
5. North Valley Academy 39
6. Gooding Elementary School 35

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Gooding

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 North Valley Academy 53.4/100
  2. 2 Idaho School for the Deaf and the Blind 52.8/100
  3. 3 Gooding Middle School 52.4/100
  4. 4 Gooding Elementary School 51.1/100
  5. 5 Gooding High School 50.3/100

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Which Gooding school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Idaho School for the Deaf and the Blind has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Gooding schools in this federal-data comparison at 61/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Gooding, ID? ▼

Gooding has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,497 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.5:1.

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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.