NCES CCD 2024-25 10 schools IN

Best-Resourced Schools in New Castle, IN

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

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10
Schools
3,481
Students
44.9/100
Avg Resource Index
13.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, New Castle has more public-school enrollment than 36% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. New Castle 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

7 of New Castle's 10 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

New Castle lists only 10 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 64 to 828 students, a 13-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 64%
School count
Top 41%
Resource Index average
70th percentile
Teacher staffing
68th percentile

New Castle High School accounts for 23.8% of all New Castle public-school enrollment

That concentration means New Castle-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

New Castle school enrollment varies 13× across entities

New Castle school enrollment ranges from 64 students (lowest) to 828 students (highest), a spread of 764 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

New Castle reports 56.6% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

New Castle student-teacher ratio is 13.9:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

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.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Blue River Valley Jr-Sr High Sch 64
2. Blue River Valley Elementary Sch 47
3. Westwood Elementary School 47
4. James Whitcomb Riley Elem School 46
5. New Castle Middle School 44
6. Eastwood Elementary School 43
7. New Castle High School 42
8. Sunnyside Elementary School 40
9. Parker Elementary School 39
10. Wilbur Wright Elementary School 37

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in New Castle

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 Wilbur Wright Elementary School 32.7/100
  2. 2 Parker Elementary School 32.0/100
  3. 3 New Castle Middle School 29.2/100
  4. 4 Eastwood Elementary School 27.9/100
  5. 5 New Castle High School 25.4/100

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Which New Castle school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Blue River Valley Jr-Sr High Sch has the highest Resource Investment Index among the New Castle 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 New Castle, IN? ▼

New Castle has 10 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,481 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.9:1.

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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.