NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools MI

Best-Resourced Schools in Royal Oak, MI

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

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9
Schools
4,727
Students
30.9/100
Avg Resource Index
15.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Royal Oak has more public-school enrollment than 53% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Royal Oak'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

Royal Oak's list includes 4 elementary, 1 middle, and 2 high-school campuses, plus 2 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.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Royal Oak lists only 9 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 77 to 1,293 students, a 17-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 47%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
14th percentile
Teacher staffing
51st percentile

Royal Oak High School accounts for 27.4% of all Royal Oak public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Royal Oak-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

Royal Oak school enrollment varies 17× across entities

Royal Oak school enrollment ranges from 77 students (lowest) to 1,293 students (highest), a spread of 1,216 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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

Royal Oak operates one school district — a single-district system

Royal Oak'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

Royal Oak student-teacher ratio is 15.3:1 — 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 Royal Oak is typically wider than the Royal Oak-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Addams Elementary and Ecc 39
2. Northwood Elementary School 35
3. Churchill Community Ed Center 34
4. Keller Elementary 31
5. Oak Ridge Elementary School 31
6. Alfred E Upton Elementary School 29
7. Royal Oak High School 28
8. Royal Oak Middle School 27
9. Oakland Elementary School 24

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Royal Oak

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 Churchill Community Ed Center 59.5/100
  2. 2 Alfred E Upton Elementary School 53.4/100
  3. 3 Oakland Elementary School 46.6/100
  4. 4 Royal Oak Middle School 44.8/100
  5. 5 Royal Oak High School 44.2/100

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Which Royal Oak school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Addams Elementary and Ecc has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Royal Oak schools in this federal-data comparison at 39/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Royal Oak, MI? ▼

Royal Oak has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,727 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.3:1.

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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.