NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools MD

Best-Resourced Schools in Ijamsville, MD

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

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6
Schools
7,845
Students
46.2/100
Avg Resource Index
20.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Ijamsville has more public-school enrollment than 73% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Ijamsville's 6 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.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Ijamsville's list includes 1 elementary, 3 middle, and 2 high-school campuses. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Ijamsville's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 75th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 8-point gap between Windsor Knolls Middle and Urbana High measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 27%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
75th percentile
Teacher staffing
14th percentile

Urbana High accounts for 25.4% of all Ijamsville public-school enrollment

That concentration means Ijamsville-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

Ijamsville school enrollment varies 2.4× across entities

Ijamsville school enrollment ranges from 812 students (lowest) to 1,989 students (highest), a spread of 1,177 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

Ijamsville operates one school district — a single-district system

Ijamsville'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

Ijamsville student-teacher ratio is 20.3:1 — 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. Windsor Knolls Middle 50
2. Oakdale Middle 49
3. Urbana Middle 48
4. Oakdale High 44
5. Oakdale Elementary 44
6. Urbana High 42

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Ijamsville

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 Oakdale Elementary 74.5/100
  2. 2 Urbana Middle 73.7/100
  3. 3 Urbana High 69.6/100
  4. 4 Windsor Knolls Middle 62.6/100
  5. 5 Oakdale High 62.4/100

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Which Ijamsville school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Windsor Knolls Middle has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Ijamsville schools in this federal-data comparison at 50/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Ijamsville, MD? ▼

Ijamsville has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 7,845 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 20.3:1.

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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.