NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools MA

Best-Resourced Schools in Amesbury, MA

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5 public K-12 schools in Amesbury 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
1,793
Students
45.6/100
Avg Resource Index
11.4:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Amesbury has more public-school enrollment than 9% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Amesbury'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.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

2 of Amesbury's 5 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 21-point gap between Amesbury High and Amesbury Elementary shows the range hidden by Amesbury'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 91%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
72nd percentile
Teacher staffing
92nd percentile

Amesbury Elementary accounts for 27.0% of all Amesbury public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Amesbury-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

Amesbury school enrollment varies 9.7× across entities

Amesbury school enrollment ranges from 50 students (lowest) to 485 students (highest), a spread of 435 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

Amesbury operates one school district — a single-district system

Amesbury'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

Amesbury student-teacher ratio is 11.4:1 — 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. Amesbury High 52
2. Charles C Cashman Elementary 52
3. Amesbury Innovation High School 47
4. Amesbury Middle 46
5. Amesbury Elementary 31

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Amesbury

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 Amesbury Innovation High School 42.2/100
  2. 2 Amesbury Middle 37.0/100
  3. 3 Amesbury High 35.0/100
  4. 4 Amesbury Elementary 33.9/100
  5. 5 Charles C Cashman Elementary 32.3/100

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Which Amesbury school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Amesbury High has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Amesbury schools in this federal-data comparison at 52/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Amesbury, MA? ▼

Amesbury has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,793 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.4:1.

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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.