NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools MI

Best-Resourced Schools in Wayland, MI

Compiled from official source data by PlainSchools. · Updated August 2026

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

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Schools

2,397

Students

24.7/100

Avg Resource Index

21.1:1

Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Wayland has more public-school enrollment than 19% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Wayland's 6 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

3 of Wayland's 6 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 2 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Wayland lists only 6 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 37 to 800 students, a 22-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 81%
School count: Top 79%
Resource Index average: 4th percentile
Teacher staffing: 11th percentile

Wayland High School accounts for 33.4% of all Wayland public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Wayland-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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Wayland school enrollment varies 22× across entities

Wayland school enrollment ranges from 37 students (lowest) to 800 students (highest), a spread of 763 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. 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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Wayland operates one school district — a single-district system

Wayland'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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Wayland student-teacher ratio is 21.1:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe Accessed 2026-08-26

#	School	Score	Enrollment	Level	District
1.	Career Connections Academy	38	37	high	Wayland Union Schools
2.	Rj Steeby School	31	256	elementary	Wayland Union Schools
3.	Bessie B Baker School	23	280	Combined	Wayland Union Schools
4.	Wayland High School	22	800	high	Wayland Union Schools
5.	Pine Street Elementary	18	413	elementary	Wayland Union Schools
6.	Wayland Union Middle School	16	611	elementary	Wayland Union Schools

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Wayland

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.

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Which Wayland school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Career Connections Academy has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Wayland schools in this federal-data comparison at 38/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Wayland, MI? ▼

Wayland has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,397 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 21.1:1.

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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.