NCES CCD 2024-25 13 schools ID

Best-Resourced Schools in Lewiston, ID

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

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13
Schools
4,480
Students
49.8/100
Avg Resource Index
14.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Lewiston has more public-school enrollment than 50% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Lewiston 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.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Lewiston's list includes 6 elementary, 2 middle, and 3 high-school campuses, plus 2 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Lewiston's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 86th 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 29-point gap between Webster Elementary School and Region 2 Juvenile Detention Center 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 50%
School count
Top 28%
Resource Index average
86th percentile
Teacher staffing
57th percentile

Lewiston High School accounts for 28.7% of all Lewiston public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Lewiston-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

Lewiston school enrollment varies 1288× across entities

Lewiston school enrollment ranges from 1 students (lowest) to 1,288 students (highest), a spread of 1,287 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. 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

Lewiston operates one school district — a single-district system

Lewiston'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

Lewiston student-teacher ratio is 14.8:1 — 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 Lewiston is typically wider than the Lewiston-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Webster Elementary School 59
2. Mcsorley Elementary School 57
3. Orchards Elementary School 55
4. Sacajawea Middle School 52
5. Mcghee Elementary School 52
6. Lewiston High School 50
7. Jenifer Middle School 50
8. Camelot Elementary School 50
9. Whitman Elementary School 49
10. Tammany High School 49
11. Centennial Elementary School 44
12. Region 2 Juvenile Detention Center 30
13. A Neil Deatley Career Technical Education Center -

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Lewiston

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 Webster Elementary School 42.5/100
  2. 2 Mcsorley Elementary School 35.7/100
  3. 3 Region 2 Juvenile Detention Center 32.0/100
  4. 4 Tammany High School 31.4/100
  5. 5 Jenifer Middle School 29.0/100

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Which Lewiston school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Webster Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Lewiston schools in this federal-data comparison at 59/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Lewiston, ID? ▼

Lewiston has 13 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,480 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.8:1.

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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.