NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools KS

Best-Resourced Schools in Winfield, KS

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6 public K-12 schools in Winfield 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
1,915
Students
44.2/100
Avg Resource Index
11.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Winfield has more public-school enrollment than 11% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Winfield's 6 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

3 of Winfield's 6 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 9-point gap between Winfield Middle School and Whittier Elem shows the range hidden by Winfield'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 89%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
66th percentile
Teacher staffing
92nd percentile

Winfield High accounts for 33.3% of all Winfield public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Winfield-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

Winfield school enrollment varies 5.6× across entities

Winfield school enrollment ranges from 114 students (lowest) to 638 students (highest), a spread of 524 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

Winfield operates one school district — a single-district system

Winfield'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

Winfield student-teacher ratio is 11.5:1 — 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. Winfield Middle School 49
2. Winfield High 48
3. Irving Elem 44
4. Country View Elem 43
5. Lowell Elem 41
6. Whittier Elem 40

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Winfield

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 Lowell Elem 56.4/100
  2. 2 Irving Elem 46.6/100
  3. 3 Winfield Middle School 46.0/100
  4. 4 Winfield High 44.7/100
  5. 5 Whittier Elem 36.5/100

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Which Winfield school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Winfield Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Winfield schools in this federal-data comparison at 49/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Winfield, KS? ▼

Winfield has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,915 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.5:1.

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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.