NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools KS

Best-Resourced Schools in Emporia, KS

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

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8
Schools
4,261
Students
39/100
Avg Resource Index
14.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Emporia has more public-school enrollment than 48% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Emporia High enrolls 35.1% of Emporia'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

6 of Emporia's 8 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 25-point gap between Timmerman Elementary and Emporia Middle School shows the range hidden by Emporia'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 52%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
41st percentile
Teacher staffing
66th percentile

Emporia High accounts for 35.1% of all Emporia public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Emporia-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

Emporia school enrollment varies 7.2× across entities

Emporia school enrollment ranges from 208 students (lowest) to 1,494 students (highest), a spread of 1,286 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

Emporia operates one school district — a single-district system

Emporia'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

Emporia student-teacher ratio is 14.1:1 — 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 Emporia is typically wider than the Emporia-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Timmerman Elementary 54
2. W a White Elem 49
3. Logan Ave Elem 46
4. Walnut Elem 38
5. Riverside Elementary 33
6. Village Elem 32
7. Emporia High 31
8. Emporia Middle School 29

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Emporia

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 W a White Elem 62.3/100
  2. 2 Emporia Middle School 57.3/100
  3. 3 Logan Ave Elem 57.2/100
  4. 4 Village Elem 57.0/100
  5. 5 Emporia High 56.1/100

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Which Emporia school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Timmerman Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Emporia schools in this federal-data comparison at 54/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Emporia, KS? ▼

Emporia has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,261 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.1:1.

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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.