26 public K-12 schools in Bloomington from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Bloomington has more public-school enrollment than 85% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Bloomington lands in the upper national tier on both the average Resource Investment Index and teacher staffing intensity. Those measures come from different inputs: the index combines reported counselors, gifted access, attendance, and staffing, while the staffing percentile compares the city's student-teacher ratio directly. Agreement across both measures is stronger evidence of broad reported capacity than either score alone, though neither is a test-score rating or a guarantee about an individual classroom.
15 of Bloomington's 26 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 24-point gap between Childs Elementary School and Bloomington High School North shows the range hidden by Bloomington's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.
Bloomington school enrollment ranges from 16 students (lowest) to 1,691 students (highest), a spread of 1,675 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
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.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Childs Elementary School | 65 |
| 2. | Edgewood Intermediate School | 61 |
| 3. | University Elementary School | 61 |
| 4. | Binford Elementary School | 61 |
| 5. | Lakeview Elementary School | 61 |
| 6. | Rogers Elementary School | 61 |
| 7. | Marlin Elementary School | 60 |
| 8. | Early Learning Center | 60 |
| 9. | Grandview Elementary School | 58 |
| 10. | Summit Elementary School | 55 |
| 11. | Lora L Batchelor Middle School | 55 |
| 12. | Arlington Heights Elementary Sch | 55 |
| 13. | Templeton Elementary School | 54 |
| 14. | Highland Park Elementary School | 54 |
| 15. | The Acad of Sci & Entrepreneurship | 54 |
| 16. | Jackson Creek Middle School | 53 |
| 17. | The Bloomington Project School | 53 |
| 18. | Clear Creek Elementary School | 53 |
| 19. | Fairview Elementary School | 50 |
| 20. | Excel Center - Bloomington | 50 |
| 21. | Tri-North Middle School | 48 |
| 22. | Edgewood Primary School | 45 |
| 23. | Bloomington High School South | 43 |
| 24. | Bloomington Graduation School | 43 |
| 25. | Hoosier Hills Childcare Center | 42 |
| 26. | Bloomington High School North | 41 |
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.
Childs Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Bloomington 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.
Bloomington has 26 public schools with a total enrollment of 11,962 students. 2 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.9:1.
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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.
