NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools IN

Best-Resourced Schools in Greenfield, IN

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9 public K-12 schools in Greenfield 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
4,968
Students
51.3/100
Avg Resource Index
14.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Greenfield has more public-school enrollment than 55% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Greenfield 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 Greenfield'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.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Greenfield's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 90th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 55th percentile. The 35-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 45%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
90th percentile
Teacher staffing
55th percentile

Greenfield-Central High School accounts for 28.4% of all Greenfield public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Greenfield-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

Greenfield school enrollment varies 9.3× across entities

Greenfield school enrollment ranges from 152 students (lowest) to 1,413 students (highest), a spread of 1,261 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

Greenfield student-teacher ratio is 14.9:1 — 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 Greenfield is typically wider than the Greenfield-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Harris Elementary School 64
2. Brandywine Elementary School 61
3. Weston Elementary School 61
4. Eden Elementary School 58
5. Greenfield Central Junior High Sch 54
6. Jb Stephens Elementary School 45
7. Greenfield Intermediate School 45
8. Mt Comfort Elementary School 38
9. Greenfield-Central High School 36

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Greenfield

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 Mt Comfort Elementary School 55.6/100
  2. 2 Weston Elementary School 35.4/100
  3. 3 Jb Stephens Elementary School 33.5/100
  4. 4 Greenfield Central Junior High Sch 31.9/100
  5. 5 Greenfield Intermediate School 31.0/100

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Which Greenfield school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Harris Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Greenfield schools in this federal-data comparison at 64/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Greenfield, IN? ▼

Greenfield has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,968 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.9:1.

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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.