NCES CCD 2024-25 12 schools KS

Best-Resourced Schools in Goddard, KS

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

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12
Schools
6,344
Students
43.4/100
Avg Resource Index
16.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Goddard has more public-school enrollment than 65% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Goddard 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

5 of Goddard's 12 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 17-point gap between Usd 265 - Goddard Virtual School and Goddard High shows the range hidden by Goddard'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 35%
School count
Top 31%
Resource Index average
62nd percentile
Teacher staffing
35th percentile

Eisenhower High School accounts for 15.6% of all Goddard public-school enrollment

That concentration means Goddard-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

Goddard school enrollment varies 34× across entities

Goddard school enrollment ranges from 29 students (lowest) to 991 students (highest), a spread of 962 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme heterogeneity inside a single city, with small specialty programs listed alongside large comprehensive campuses. 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

Goddard operates one school district — a single-district system

Goddard'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

Goddard student-teacher ratio is 16.8:1 — 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 Goddard is typically wider than the Goddard-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Usd 265 - Goddard Virtual School 55
2. Explorer Elementary School 47
3. Challenger Intermediate School 45
4. Eisenhower High School 44
5. Discovery Intermediate School 44
6. Clark Davidson Elem 44
7. Amelia Earhart Elementary School 43
8. Oak Street Elementary School K-4 43
9. Apollo Elementary School 40
10. Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School 39
11. Goddard Middle School 39
12. Goddard High 38

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Goddard

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 Clark Davidson Elem 52.5/100
  2. 2 Challenger Intermediate School 45.3/100
  3. 3 Amelia Earhart Elementary School 45.2/100
  4. 4 Goddard High 44.1/100
  5. 5 Explorer Elementary School 43.4/100

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Which Goddard school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Usd 265 - Goddard Virtual School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Goddard schools in this federal-data comparison at 55/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Goddard, KS? ▼

Goddard has 12 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,344 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.8:1.

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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.