NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools MA

Best-Resourced Schools in Rockland, MA

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5 public K-12 schools in Rockland 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
2,405
Students
39/100
Avg Resource Index
14.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Rockland has more public-school enrollment than 19% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Rockland'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 school portfolio is elementary-weighted

4 of Rockland's 5 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 0 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 20-point gap between Memorial Park and Jefferson Elementary School shows the range hidden by Rockland'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 81%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
41st percentile
Teacher staffing
63rd percentile

John W Rogers Middle accounts for 28.6% of all Rockland public-school enrollment

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

Rockland school enrollment varies 2.8× across entities

Rockland school enrollment ranges from 242 students (lowest) to 687 students (highest), a spread of 445 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

Rockland operates one school district — a single-district system

Rockland'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

Rockland student-teacher ratio is 14.3:1 — 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 Rockland is typically wider than the Rockland-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Memorial Park 47
2. John W Rogers Middle 45
3. Rockland Senior High 41
4. R Stewart Esten 35
5. Jefferson Elementary School 27

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Rockland

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 R Stewart Esten 57.1/100
  2. 2 Jefferson Elementary School 54.0/100
  3. 3 John W Rogers Middle 52.8/100
  4. 4 Rockland Senior High 52.0/100

What do families ask about schools in Rockland?

Which Rockland school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Memorial Park has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Rockland schools in this federal-data comparison at 47/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Rockland, MA? ▼

Rockland has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,405 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.3:1.

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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.