NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools IA

Best-Resourced Schools in Coralville, IA

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

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5
Schools
2,446
Students
47.2/100
Avg Resource Index
13.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Coralville has more public-school enrollment than 20% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Northwest Junior High School enrolls 45.5% of Coralville's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

4 of Coralville's 5 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.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Coralville's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 79th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 21-point gap between Wickham Elementary and Northwest Junior High School measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 80%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
79th percentile
Teacher staffing
77th percentile

Northwest Junior High School accounts for 45.5% of all Coralville public-school enrollment

That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Coralville a distant remainder — means Coralville-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Middle. 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

Coralville school enrollment varies 4.1× across entities

Coralville school enrollment ranges from 270 students (lowest) to 1,113 students (highest), a spread of 843 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

Coralville operates one school district — a single-district system

Coralville'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

Coralville student-teacher ratio is 13.2:1 — 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. Wickham Elementary 56
2. Kirkwood Elementary School 53
3. Norman Borlaug Elementary School 47
4. Central Elementary School 45
5. Northwest Junior High School 35

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Coralville

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 Central Elementary School 71.2/100
  2. 2 Northwest Junior High School 70.0/100
  3. 3 Norman Borlaug Elementary School 68.6/100
  4. 4 Kirkwood Elementary School 66.1/100
  5. 5 Wickham Elementary 60.8/100

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Which Coralville school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Wickham Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Coralville 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 Coralville, IA? ▼

Coralville has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,446 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.2:1.

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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.