NCES CCD 2024-25 13 schools KY

Best-Resourced Schools in Richmond, KY

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

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13
Schools
7,023
Students
41.7/100
Avg Resource Index
14.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Richmond has more public-school enrollment than 69% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Richmond 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.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Richmond's list includes 4 elementary, 3 middle, and 1 high-school campus, plus 5 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.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 31-point gap between Madison County Day Treatment and Madison Kindergarten Academy shows the range hidden by Richmond'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 31%
School count
Top 28%
Resource Index average
54th percentile
Teacher staffing
57th percentile

Madison Central High School accounts for 30.0% of all Richmond public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Richmond-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

Richmond school enrollment varies 192× across entities

Richmond school enrollment ranges from 11 students (lowest) to 2,107 students (highest), a spread of 2,096 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

Richmond operates one school district — a single-district system

Richmond'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

Richmond student-teacher ratio is 14.8:1 — 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 Richmond is typically wider than the Richmond-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Madison County Day Treatment 60
2. White Hall Elementary School 51
3. Clark Moores Middle School 50
4. Glenn R Marshall Elementary School 46
5. Boonesborough Elementary 46
6. Kit Carson Elementary School 43
7. Daniel Boone Elementary School 41
8. Madison Middle School 38
9. B. Michael Caudill Middle School 38
10. Kirksville Elementary School 37
11. Madison Central High School 33
12. Bellevue Transitional School 30
13. Madison Kindergarten Academy 29

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Richmond

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 Madison Kindergarten Academy 50.0/100
  2. 2 Daniel Boone Elementary School 49.8/100
  3. 3 Madison Middle School 43.1/100
  4. 4 Bellevue Transitional School 43.0/100
  5. 5 Kirksville Elementary School 41.6/100

What do families ask about schools in Richmond?

Which Richmond school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Madison County Day Treatment has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Richmond schools in this federal-data comparison at 60/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Richmond, KY? ▼

Richmond has 13 public schools with a total enrollment of 7,023 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.8:1.

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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.