NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools ID

Best-Resourced Schools in Moscow, ID

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

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9
Schools
2,623
Students
48.2/100
Avg Resource Index
14.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Moscow has more public-school enrollment than 23% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Moscow 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.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

5 of Moscow's 9 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Moscow lists only 9 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 21 to 760 students, a 36-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 77%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
82nd percentile
Teacher staffing
58th percentile

Moscow High School accounts for 29.0% of all Moscow public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Moscow-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

Moscow school enrollment varies 36× across entities

Moscow school enrollment ranges from 21 students (lowest) to 760 students (highest), a spread of 739 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme heterogeneity inside a single city, with small specialty programs listed alongside large comprehensive campuses. 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

Moscow student-teacher ratio is 14.7:1 — 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 Moscow is typically wider than the Moscow-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

2 of Moscow's 9 listed schools are charters

22% 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. Paradise Creek Regional High School 65
2. Moscow Charter School 55
3. J Russell Elementary School 55
4. Palouse Prairie Charter School 53
5. Lena Whitmore Elementary School 50
6. A B Mcdonald Elementary School 48
7. Moscow Middle School 40
8. Moscow High School 37
9. West Park Elementary School 31

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Moscow

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 Moscow Charter School 38.9/100
  2. 2 Palouse Prairie Charter School 35.4/100
  3. 3 Paradise Creek Regional High School 32.6/100
  4. 4 West Park Elementary School 31.8/100
  5. 5 Moscow High School 31.3/100

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Which Moscow school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Paradise Creek Regional High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Moscow schools in this federal-data comparison at 65/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Moscow, ID? ▼

Moscow has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,623 students. 2 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.7:1.

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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.