NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools LA

Best-Resourced Schools in Rayne, LA

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

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7
Schools
2,534
Students
44.7/100
Avg Resource Index
17.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Resource breadth with tighter class loads

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Rayne has more public-school enrollment than 21% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Rayne's average Resource Investment Index ranks above most listed cities even though its student-teacher ratio is on the more crowded side of the national city distribution. That is a useful mismatch, not a contradiction: counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance can lift the composite while classroom staffing remains comparatively tight. Families should inspect the component scores on each school profile instead of reading the city index as a shorthand for small classes.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

3 of Rayne's 7 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.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Rayne's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 69th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 28th percentile. The 41-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 79%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
69th percentile
Teacher staffing
28th percentile

Mire Elementary School accounts for 26.1% of all Rayne public-school enrollment

That concentration means Rayne-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

Rayne school enrollment varies 3.8× across entities

Rayne school enrollment ranges from 173 students (lowest) to 662 students (highest), a spread of 489 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

Rayne reports 62.6% 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

Rayne student-teacher ratio is 17.6:1 — 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 Rayne is typically wider than the Rayne-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Indian Bayou Elementary School 56
2. South Rayne Elementary School 54
3. Central Rayne Kindergarten School 46
4. Martin Petitjean Elementary School 43
5. Mire Elementary School 42
6. Rayne High School 38
7. Armstrong Middle School 34

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Rayne

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 Armstrong Middle School 65.6/100
  2. 2 South Rayne Elementary School 63.8/100
  3. 3 Central Rayne Kindergarten School 62.9/100
  4. 4 Martin Petitjean Elementary School 62.4/100
  5. 5 Rayne High School 56.3/100

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Which Rayne school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Indian Bayou Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Rayne schools in this federal-data comparison at 56/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Rayne, LA? ▼

Rayne has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,534 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 17.6:1.

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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.