NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools IN

Best-Resourced Schools in Martinsville, IN

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9 public K-12 schools in Martinsville 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
3,965
Students
51.8/100
Avg Resource Index
14.4:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Martinsville has more public-school enrollment than 43% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Martinsville 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.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

6 of Martinsville's 9 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.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Martinsville lists only 9 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 126 to 1,284 students, a 10-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 57%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
91st percentile
Teacher staffing
62nd percentile

Martinsville High School accounts for 32.4% of all Martinsville public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Martinsville-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

Martinsville school enrollment varies 10× across entities

Martinsville school enrollment ranges from 126 students (lowest) to 1,284 students (highest), a spread of 1,158 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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

Martinsville student-teacher ratio is 14.4:1 — 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 Martinsville is typically wider than the Martinsville-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Green Township Elementary School 62
2. Waverly Elementary School 56
3. Poston Road Elementary School 55
4. John R. Wooden Middle School 54
5. South Elementary School of Communications 53
6. Centerton Elementary School 53
7. Charles L Smith Fine Arts Academy 51
8. Martinsville High School 42
9. Bell Intermediate Academy 40

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Martinsville

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 Waverly Elementary School 40.1/100
  2. 2 Poston Road Elementary School 20.4/100
  3. 3 Centerton Elementary School 17.7/100
  4. 4 John R. Wooden Middle School 14.2/100
  5. 5 Green Township Elementary School 13.9/100

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Which Martinsville school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Green Township Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Martinsville schools in this federal-data comparison at 62/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Martinsville, IN? ▼

Martinsville has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,965 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.4:1.

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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.