18 public K-12 schools in Ashland from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Ashland has more public-school enrollment than 64% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Ashland 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.
Ashland's list includes 7 elementary, 2 middle, and 2 high-school campuses, plus 7 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.
The 32-point gap between Charles Russell Elementary School and Ashland Head Start shows the range hidden by Ashland'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.
Ashland school enrollment ranges from 5 students (lowest) to 888 students (highest), a spread of 883 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. 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
The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
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.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Charles Russell Elementary School | 62 |
| 2. | Raceland-Worthington Schools Campus B | 61 |
| 3. | Fairview Elementary School | 59 |
| 4. | Oakview Elementary School | 54 |
| 5. | Raceland-Worthington Schools Campus a | 54 |
| 6. | Hager Elementary School | 53 |
| 7. | Poage Elementary School | 52 |
| 8. | Cannonsburg Elementary School | 46 |
| 9. | Boyd County High School | 45 |
| 10. | Boyd County Middle School | 44 |
| 11. | Fairview High School | 43 |
| 12. | Summit Elementary School | 41 |
| 13. | Crabbe Elementary School | 41 |
| 14. | Boyd Co Early Childhood Academy | 39 |
| 15. | Paul G. Blazer High School | 35 |
| 16. | Ashland Middle School | 35 |
| 17. | Ashland Head Start | 30 |
| 18. | Ashland Alternative School | - |
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.
Charles Russell Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Ashland schools in this federal-data comparison at 62/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Ashland has 18 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,073 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.1:1.
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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.
