NCES CCD 2024-25 11 schools MI

Best-Resourced Schools in Northville, MI

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11 public K-12 schools in Northville 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
6,858
Students
40.5/100
Avg Resource Index
17.4:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Northville has more public-school enrollment than 68% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Northville High School enrolls 35.6% of Northville's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

6 of Northville's 11 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 2 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 33-point gap between Hawthorn Center and Northville High School shows the range hidden by Northville'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 32%
School count
Top 35%
Resource Index average
48th percentile
Teacher staffing
30th percentile

Northville High School accounts for 35.6% of all Northville public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Northville-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

Northville school enrollment varies 203× across entities

Northville school enrollment ranges from 12 students (lowest) to 2,441 students (highest), a spread of 2,429 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

Northville student-teacher ratio is 17.4:1 — 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 Northville is typically wider than the Northville-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Hawthorn Center 65
2. Salem Elementary School 49
3. Moraine Elementary School 42
4. Ridge Wood Elementary School 40
5. Amerman Elementary School 39
6. Meads Mill Middle School 38
7. Winchester Elementary School 36
8. Cooke School 36
9. Hillside Middle School 35
10. Silver Springs Elementary School 34
11. Northville High School 32

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Northville

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 Cooke School 61.5/100
  2. 2 Silver Springs Elementary School 59.1/100
  3. 3 Ridge Wood Elementary School 57.2/100
  4. 4 Northville High School 51.9/100
  5. 5 Meads Mill Middle School 51.0/100

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Which Northville school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Hawthorn Center has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Northville schools in this federal-data comparison at 65/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Northville, MI? ▼

Northville has 11 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,858 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 17.4:1.

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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.