NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools MD

Best-Resourced Schools in Olney, MD

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5 public K-12 schools in Olney 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
2,863
Students
52.4/100
Avg Resource Index
15:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Olney has more public-school enrollment than 26% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Olney'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 listed grade span is structurally narrow

Olney's 5 listed schools do not form a conventional mix of elementary, middle, and high-school campuses. The missing or thin grade bands make all-school city averages less representative of a typical K–12 pathway; district boundaries and nearby-city options may matter more for the grades not well represented here.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Olney's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 92nd 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 14-point gap between William H. Farquhar Middle and Olney Elementary 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 74%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
92nd percentile
Teacher staffing
54th percentile

Rosa M. Parks Middle accounts for 30.1% of all Olney public-school enrollment

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

Olney school enrollment varies 2.5× across entities

Olney school enrollment ranges from 343 students (lowest) to 863 students (highest), a spread of 520 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

Olney operates one school district — a single-district system

Olney'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

Olney student-teacher ratio is 15.0:1 — 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 Olney is typically wider than the Olney-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. William H. Farquhar Middle 57
2. Belmont Elementary 57
3. Rosa M. Parks Middle 54
4. Brooke Grove Elementary 51
5. Olney Elementary 43

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Olney

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 William H. Farquhar Middle 76.4/100
  2. 2 Brooke Grove Elementary 76.3/100
  3. 3 Olney Elementary 70.0/100
  4. 4 Rosa M. Parks Middle 65.5/100
  5. 5 Belmont Elementary 61.2/100

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Which Olney school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

William H. Farquhar Middle has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Olney schools in this federal-data comparison at 57/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Olney, MD? ▼

Olney has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,863 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15:1.

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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.