NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools IN

Best-Resourced Schools in Highland, IN

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6 public K-12 schools in Highland 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
3,165
Students
41.8/100
Avg Resource Index
20:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Highland has more public-school enrollment than 31% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Highland's 6 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

3 of Highland's 6 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

Highland's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 54th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 16th percentile. The 38-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 69%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
54th percentile
Teacher staffing
16th percentile

Highland High School accounts for 30.7% of all Highland public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Highland-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

Highland school enrollment varies 3.3× across entities

Highland school enrollment ranges from 290 students (lowest) to 971 students (highest), a spread of 681 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

Highland operates one school district — a single-district system

Highland'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

Highland student-teacher ratio is 20.0:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Mildred Merkley Elementary School 46
2. Highland High School 44
3. Allen J Warren Elementary School 42
4. Highland Middle School 41
5. Judith Morton Johnston Elementary 40
6. Southridge Elementary School 38

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Highland

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 Allen J Warren Elementary School 70.0/100
  2. 2 Mildred Merkley Elementary School 64.2/100
  3. 3 Highland High School 63.0/100
  4. 4 Highland Middle School 61.7/100
  5. 5 Judith Morton Johnston Elementary 60.4/100

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Which Highland school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Mildred Merkley Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Highland schools in this federal-data comparison at 46/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Highland, IN? ▼

Highland has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,165 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 20:1.

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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.