14 public K-12 schools in Olive Branch from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Olive Branch has more public-school enrollment than 82% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Olive Branch's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.
Olive Branch's list includes 5 elementary, 2 middle, and 3 high-school campuses, plus 4 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.
Olive Branch's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 16th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 54th percentile. The 38-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.
Olive Branch school enrollment ranges from 472 students (lowest) to 1,330 students (highest), a spread of 858 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. 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
Olive Branch'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
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 Olive Branch is typically wider than the Olive Branch-aggregate figure suggests.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Center Hill Elementary School | 38 |
| 2. | Olive Branch Middle | 36 |
| 3. | Overpark Elementary | 36 |
| 4. | Olive Branch High School | 35 |
| 5. | Lewisburg Elementary School | 34 |
| 6. | Center Hill High School | 33 |
| 7. | Lewisburg Intermediate | 33 |
| 8. | Chickasaw Elementary School | 33 |
| 9. | Center Hill Middle | 32 |
| 10. | Olive Branch Intermediate School | 31 |
| 11. | Pleasant Hill Elementary | 29 |
| 12. | Lewisburg High School | 27 |
| 13. | Olive Branch Elem | 24 |
| 14. | Lewisburg Primary | 21 |
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.
Center Hill Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Olive Branch schools in this federal-data comparison at 38/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Olive Branch has 14 public schools with a total enrollment of 10,714 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15:1.
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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.
