NCES CCD 2024-25 17 schools MD

Best-Resourced Schools in Westminster, MD

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

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17
Schools
8,614
Students
43.4/100
Avg Resource Index
11.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Westminster has more public-school enrollment than 76% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Westminster 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

8 of Westminster's 17 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.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 64-point gap between Gateway School and Post Secondary Program shows the range hidden by Westminster'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 24%
School count
Top 19%
Resource Index average
62nd percentile
Teacher staffing
90th percentile

Westminster High accounts for 17.1% of all Westminster public-school enrollment

That concentration means Westminster-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

Westminster school enrollment varies 246× across entities

Westminster school enrollment ranges from 6 students (lowest) to 1,477 students (highest), a spread of 1,471 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. 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

Westminster operates one school district — a single-district system

Westminster'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

Westminster student-teacher ratio is 11.7:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Gateway School 79
2. Pride School 61
3. Crossroads Middle School 58
4. Robert Moton Elementary 46
5. Carroll Springs School 45
6. Winters Mill High 44
7. Westminster West Middle 44
8. Westminster High 43
9. Westminster East Middle 42
10. Friendship Valley Elementary 41
11. Westminster Elementary 39
12. Winfield Elementary 38
13. Runnymede Elementary 38
14. William Winchester Elementary 36
15. Flexible Student Support 35
16. Cranberry Station Elementary 33
17. Post Secondary Program 15

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Westminster

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 Robert Moton Elementary 61.7/100
  2. 2 Pride School 61.1/100
  3. 3 Westminster Elementary 54.0/100
  4. 4 Cranberry Station Elementary 53.8/100
  5. 5 Winters Mill High 51.9/100

What do families ask about schools in Westminster?

Which Westminster school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Gateway School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Westminster schools in this federal-data comparison at 79/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Westminster, MD? ▼

Westminster has 17 public schools with a total enrollment of 8,614 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.7:1.

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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.