NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools MN

Best-Resourced Schools in Waconia, MN

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

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8
Schools
3,927
Students
41.4/100
Avg Resource Index
14.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Waconia has more public-school enrollment than 43% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Waconia 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.

Secondary campuses occupy an unusually large share

3 of the 8 listed Waconia schools are classified as high schools, a substantial share of the local portfolio. Advanced-course access, counseling, and graduation-stage staffing therefore have more weight in the city Resource Index average than they do in an elementary-heavy system.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Waconia lists only 8 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 11 to 1,335 students, a 121-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 57%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
52nd percentile
Teacher staffing
63rd percentile

Waconia High School accounts for 34.0% of all Waconia public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Waconia-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

Waconia school enrollment varies 121× across entities

Waconia school enrollment ranges from 11 students (lowest) to 1,335 students (highest), a spread of 1,324 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

Waconia operates one school district — a single-district system

Waconia'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

Waconia student-teacher ratio is 14.3:1 — 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 Waconia is typically wider than the Waconia-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Waconia Learning Center 63
2. Transitions 110 43
3. Waconia Middle School 42
4. Laketown Elementary 42
5. Southview Elementary 40
6. Bayview Elementary 40
7. Early Childhood Special Education 31
8. Waconia High School 30

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Waconia

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 Transitions 110 44.7/100
  2. 2 Waconia Learning Center 27.8/100
  3. 3 Waconia Middle School 25.1/100
  4. 4 Early Childhood Special Education 24.0/100
  5. 5 Bayview Elementary 23.3/100

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Which Waconia school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Waconia Learning Center has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Waconia schools in this federal-data comparison at 63/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Waconia, MN? ▼

Waconia has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,927 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.3:1.

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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.