NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools LA

Best-Resourced Schools in Benton, LA

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

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5
Schools
4,449
Students
28.6/100
Avg Resource Index
19.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Benton has more public-school enrollment than 50% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Benton's 5 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 Benton's 5 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 0 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 Kingston Elementary School and Benton Elementary School shows the range hidden by Benton'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 50%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
10th percentile
Teacher staffing
19th percentile

Benton High School accounts for 34.1% of all Benton public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Benton-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Combined. 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

Benton school enrollment varies 2.5× across entities

Benton school enrollment ranges from 595 students (lowest) to 1,515 students (highest), a spread of 920 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

Benton operates one school district — a single-district system

Benton'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

Benton student-teacher ratio is 19.1:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Kingston Elementary School 34
2. Benton Intermediate School 30
3. Benton High School 28
4. Benton Middle School 26
5. Benton Elementary School 25

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Benton

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 Benton Elementary School 45.5/100
  2. 2 Kingston Elementary School 43.0/100
  3. 3 Benton High School 42.5/100
  4. 4 Benton Middle School 41.5/100
  5. 5 Benton Intermediate School 40.4/100

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Which Benton school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Kingston Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Benton schools in this federal-data comparison at 34/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Benton, LA? ▼

Benton has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,449 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 19.1:1.

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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.