NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools MN

Best-Resourced Schools in New Brighton, MN

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9 public K-12 schools in New Brighton 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
5,252
Students
42.9/100
Avg Resource Index
13.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, New Brighton has more public-school enrollment than 57% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. New Brighton 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.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

4 of New Brighton's 9 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

New Brighton lists only 9 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 35 to 1,812 students, a 52-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 43%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
60th percentile
Teacher staffing
77th percentile

Irondale Senior High accounts for 34.5% of all New Brighton public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means New Brighton-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

New Brighton school enrollment varies 52× across entities

New Brighton school enrollment ranges from 35 students (lowest) to 1,812 students (highest), a spread of 1,777 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme heterogeneity inside a single city, with small specialty programs listed alongside large comprehensive campuses. 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

New Brighton student-teacher ratio is 13.2:1 — 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

1 of New Brighton's 9 listed schools are charters

11% of the city's listed public-school campuses are reported as charter schools in NCES CCD. Charter status identifies a different governance arrangement; it does not establish admissions availability, academic quality, or the share of city students enrolled in those campuses. Open each school record to compare enrollment and staffing directly.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

# School Score
1. Bel Air Elementary 68
2. Ecse Program 59
3. Sunnyside Elementary 51
4. Highview Middle School 43
5. Irondale Senior High 37
6. Pike Lake Kindergarten Center 35
7. Global Academy 33
8. Birth to Two Ecse 30
9. Speech Program - Sp Ed Program 30

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in New Brighton

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 Ecse Program 78.8/100
  2. 2 Pike Lake Kindergarten Center 70.4/100
  3. 3 Irondale Senior High 70.3/100
  4. 4 Sunnyside Elementary 68.4/100
  5. 5 Highview Middle School 62.2/100

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Which New Brighton school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Bel Air Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the New Brighton schools in this federal-data comparison at 68/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in New Brighton, MN? ▼

New Brighton has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,252 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.2:1.

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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.