NCES CCD 2024-25 12 schools MN

Best-Resourced Schools in Moorhead, MN

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

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12
Schools
7,591
Students
40.7/100
Avg Resource Index
12.4:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Moorhead has more public-school enrollment than 72% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Moorhead 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

6 of Moorhead's 12 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.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Moorhead's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 49th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 85th percentile. The 36-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 28%
School count
Top 31%
Resource Index average
49th percentile
Teacher staffing
85th percentile

Horizon Middle School accounts for 28.4% of all Moorhead public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Moorhead-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Elementary. 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

Moorhead school enrollment varies 135× across entities

Moorhead school enrollment ranges from 16 students (lowest) to 2,158 students (highest), a spread of 2,142 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

Moorhead student-teacher ratio is 12.4:1 — 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. West Central Academy-S 55
2. Moorhead Alc 53
3. Probstfield Center for Education 51
4. Lakes Country Youth Educ Svcs 47
5. S.G. Reinertsen Elementary 45
6. Ellen Hopkins Elementary 39
7. Dorothy Dodds Elementary School 38
8. Horizon Middle School 36
9. Robert Asp Elementary 34
10. West Central Academy-N 30
11. Moorhead High School 20
12. Probstfield Elementary -

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Moorhead

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 West Central Academy-N 78.8/100
  2. 2 West Central Academy-S 74.6/100
  3. 3 Moorhead Alc 73.1/100
  4. 4 Ellen Hopkins Elementary 68.5/100
  5. 5 Probstfield Center for Education 61.3/100

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Which Moorhead school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

West Central Academy-S has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Moorhead schools in this federal-data comparison at 55/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Moorhead, MN? ▼

Moorhead has 12 public schools with a total enrollment of 7,591 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.4:1.

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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.