NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools IN

Best-Resourced Schools in Pendleton, IN

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6 public K-12 schools in Pendleton 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
4,823
Students
42.2/100
Avg Resource Index
17.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Pendleton has more public-school enrollment than 54% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Pendleton 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

3 of Pendleton's 6 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.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 27-point gap between Pendleton Juvenile Correctional and Pendleton Heights High School shows the range hidden by Pendleton'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.

City enrollment
Top 46%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
56th percentile
Teacher staffing
27th percentile

Pendleton Heights High School accounts for 31.1% of all Pendleton public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Pendleton-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

Pendleton school enrollment varies 9.8× across entities

Pendleton school enrollment ranges from 153 students (lowest) to 1,502 students (highest), a spread of 1,349 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

Pendleton student-teacher ratio is 17.8:1 — 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 Pendleton is typically wider than the Pendleton-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Pendleton Juvenile Correctional 56
2. Pendleton Elementary School 48
3. East Elementary School 43
4. Maple Ridge Elementary School 40
5. Pendleton Heights Middle School 37
6. Pendleton Heights High School 29

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Pendleton

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 Maple Ridge Elementary School 45.0/100
  2. 2 Pendleton Heights Middle School 29.0/100
  3. 3 Pendleton Heights High School 26.5/100
  4. 4 Pendleton Elementary School 21.7/100
  5. 5 East Elementary School 14.0/100

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Which Pendleton school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Pendleton Juvenile Correctional has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Pendleton schools in this federal-data comparison at 56/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Pendleton, IN? ▼

Pendleton has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,823 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 17.8:1.

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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.