NCES CCD 2024-25 10 schools LA

Best-Resourced Schools in Pineville, LA

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

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10
Schools
4,712
Students
44.1/100
Avg Resource Index
15.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Pineville has more public-school enrollment than 53% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Pineville 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

6 of Pineville's 10 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.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Pineville lists only 10 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 64 to 1,271 students, a 20-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 47%
School count
Top 41%
Resource Index average
66th percentile
Teacher staffing
51st percentile

Pineville High School accounts for 27.0% of all Pineville public-school enrollment

That concentration means Pineville-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

Pineville school enrollment varies 20× across entities

Pineville school enrollment ranges from 64 students (lowest) to 1,271 students (highest), a spread of 1,207 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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

Pineville reports 64.7% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. 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

Pineville student-teacher ratio is 15.3:1 — 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 Pineville is typically wider than the Pineville-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. The Pines Head Start 77
2. Ruby-Wise Elementary School 52
3. Mary Goff Elementary School 52
4. Pineville Elementary School 46
5. Tioga Junior High School 42
6. J.I. Barron Sr. Elementary School 41
7. Lessie Moore Elementary School 38
8. Pineville High School 34
9. Pinecrest Supports & Services Center 30
10. Pineville Junior High School 29

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Pineville

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 Pinecrest Supports & Services Center 58.3/100
  2. 2 J.I. Barron Sr. Elementary School 58.2/100
  3. 3 Pineville Junior High School 56.3/100
  4. 4 Pineville High School 54.5/100
  5. 5 Tioga Junior High School 46.4/100

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Which Pineville school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

The Pines Head Start has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Pineville schools in this federal-data comparison at 77/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Pineville, LA? ▼

Pineville has 10 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,712 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.3:1.

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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.