NCES CCD 2024-25 15 schools MN

Best-Resourced Schools in Eagan, MN

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

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15
Schools
10,216
Students
49.7/100
Avg Resource Index
16:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Eagan has more public-school enrollment than 81% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Eagan 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.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

8 of Eagan's 15 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 3 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Eagan's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 86th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 43rd percentile. The 43-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 19%
School count
Top 23%
Resource Index average
86th percentile
Teacher staffing
43rd percentile

Eagan Senior High accounts for 22.3% of all Eagan public-school enrollment

That concentration means Eagan-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

Eagan school enrollment varies 17× across entities

Eagan school enrollment ranges from 133 students (lowest) to 2,274 students (highest), a spread of 2,141 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

Eagan student-teacher ratio is 16.0:1 — 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 Eagan is typically wider than the Eagan-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Northview Elementary 60
2. Oak Ridge Leadershipenviron/Health 58
3. Red Pine Elementary 57
4. Glacier Hills School - Arts/Science 57
5. Woodland Elementary 56
6. Deerwood Elementary 56
7. Thomas Lake Elementary 55
8. Pinewood Community Elementary 53
9. Black Hawk Middle 47
10. Burnsville Alternative High School 46
11. Rosemount Area Learning Center 46
12. Dakota Hills Middle 45
13. Rahn Elementary 43
14. Pilot Knob Stem Magnet School 36
15. Eagan Senior High 31

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Eagan

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 Rosemount Area Learning Center 76.8/100
  2. 2 Pilot Knob Stem Magnet School 76.0/100
  3. 3 Rahn Elementary 74.9/100
  4. 4 Oak Ridge Leadershipenviron/Health 74.7/100
  5. 5 Glacier Hills School - Arts/Science 73.9/100

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Which Eagan school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Northview Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Eagan schools in this federal-data comparison at 60/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Eagan, MN? ▼

Eagan has 15 public schools with a total enrollment of 10,216 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16:1.

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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.