NCES CCD 2024-25 11 schools MI

Best-Resourced Schools in Lake Orion, MI

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

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11
Schools
5,961
Students
34.2/100
Avg Resource Index
14.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Lake Orion has more public-school enrollment than 63% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Lake Orion's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Lake Orion's list includes 3 elementary, 2 middle, and 2 high-school campuses, plus 4 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Lake Orion's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 23rd percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 61st percentile. The 38-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 37%
School count
Top 35%
Resource Index average
23rd percentile
Teacher staffing
61st percentile

Lake Orion Community High School accounts for 34.1% of all Lake Orion public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Lake Orion-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

Lake Orion school enrollment varies 36× across entities

Lake Orion school enrollment ranges from 56 students (lowest) to 2,035 students (highest), a spread of 1,979 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme heterogeneity inside a single city, with small specialty programs listed alongside large comprehensive campuses. 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

Lake Orion operates one school district — a single-district system

Lake Orion'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

Lake Orion student-teacher ratio is 14.5:1 — 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 Lake Orion is typically wider than the Lake Orion-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Learning Options High School 53
2. Pine Tree Center 43
3. Stadium Drive Elementary School 38
4. Webber School 36
5. Lake Orion Community High School 33
6. Paint Creek Elementary School 30
7. Scripps Middle School 30
8. Waldon Middle School 29
9. Orion Oaks Elementary School 28
10. Carpenter Elem School 28
11. Blanche Sims Elementary School 28

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Lake Orion

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 Stadium Drive Elementary School 56.5/100
  2. 2 Carpenter Elem School 52.6/100
  3. 3 Pine Tree Center 52.0/100
  4. 4 Learning Options High School 51.3/100
  5. 5 Orion Oaks Elementary School 49.8/100

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Which Lake Orion school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Learning Options High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Lake Orion schools in this federal-data comparison at 53/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Lake Orion, MI? ▼

Lake Orion has 11 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,961 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.5:1.

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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.