NCES CCD 2024-25 20 schools MN

Best-Resourced Schools in Monticello, MN

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

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20
Schools
4,325
Students
41.2/100
Avg Resource Index
9.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Monticello has more public-school enrollment than 48% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Monticello 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.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Monticello's list includes 7 elementary, 3 middle, and 4 high-school campuses, plus 6 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.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Monticello's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 51st percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 99th percentile. The 48-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 52%
School count
Top 15%
Resource Index average
51st percentile
Teacher staffing
99th percentile

Monticello Senior High accounts for 30.4% of all Monticello public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Monticello-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

Monticello school enrollment varies 263× across entities

Monticello school enrollment ranges from 5 students (lowest) to 1,313 students (highest), a spread of 1,308 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

Monticello student-teacher ratio is 9.9:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Little Mountain Elementary - Snw 93
2. Pinewood Elementary - Snw 72
3. Eastview Elementary School - Snw 66
4. 882 Online 6-12 56
5. Swan River Montessori Charter Sch 51
6. Primary Dcd - Snw 47
7. Eastview Education Center 45
8. Monticello High School - Snw 44
9. 882 Online K-5 42
10. Little Mountain Elementary 41
11. Monticello Alternative Program 41
12. Monticello Middle School - Snw 41
13. Pinewood Elementary 38
14. Monticello Senior High 27
15. Monticello Middle 23
16. Monticello Nature Based Education 15
17. Snw Monti Ms Ebd Program -
18. Snw Monti Hs Ebd Program -
19. Foundations Ii -
20. Intensive Dcd - Snw -

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Monticello

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 Monticello Alternative Program 69.1/100
  2. 2 Foundations Ii 66.0/100
  3. 3 Intensive Dcd - Snw 61.1/100
  4. 4 Little Mountain Elementary - Snw 48.0/100
  5. 5 Little Mountain Elementary 46.2/100

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Which Monticello school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Little Mountain Elementary - Snw has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Monticello schools in this federal-data comparison at 93/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Monticello, MN? ▼

Monticello has 20 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,325 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 9.9:1.

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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.