NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools MI

Best-Resourced Schools in Saline, MI

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9 public K-12 schools in Saline 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
4,598
Students
41.7/100
Avg Resource Index
16.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Saline has more public-school enrollment than 51% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Saline sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

Secondary campuses occupy an unusually large share

4 of the 9 listed Saline schools are classified as high schools, a substantial share of the local portfolio. Advanced-course access, counseling, and graduation-stage staffing therefore have more weight in the city Resource Index average than they do in an elementary-heavy system.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Saline lists only 9 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 2 to 1,519 students, a 760-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 49%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
54th percentile
Teacher staffing
34th percentile

Saline High School accounts for 33.0% of all Saline public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Saline-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

Saline school enrollment varies 760× across entities

Saline school enrollment ranges from 2 students (lowest) to 1,519 students (highest), a spread of 1,517 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

Saline student-teacher ratio is 16.9:1 — 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 Saline is typically wider than the Saline-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Young Adult Program 83
2. Harvest Elementary School 49
3. Woodland Meadows Elementary School 45
4. Saline High School 44
5. Pleasant Ridge Elementary School 44
6. Heritage School 40
7. Center for Forensic Psychiatry 30
8. Saline Middle School 26
9. Saline Alternative High School 14

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Saline

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 Harvest Elementary School 44.0/100
  2. 2 Young Adult Program 40.1/100
  3. 3 Heritage School 38.8/100
  4. 4 Woodland Meadows Elementary School 36.2/100
  5. 5 Saline Middle School 33.5/100

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Which Saline school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Young Adult Program has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Saline schools in this federal-data comparison at 83/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Saline, MI? ▼

Saline has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,598 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.9:1.

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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.