19 public K-12 schools in Jefferson City 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, Jefferson City has more public-school enrollment than 78% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Jefferson City lands in the upper national tier on both the average Resource Investment Index and teacher staffing intensity. Those measures come from different inputs: the index combines reported counselors, gifted access, attendance, and staffing, while the staffing percentile compares the city's student-teacher ratio directly. Agreement across both measures is stronger evidence of broad reported capacity than either score alone, though neither is a test-score rating or a guarantee about an individual classroom.
10 of Jefferson City's 19 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 3 middle and 3 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.
The 25-point gap between Blair Oaks Intermediate and Jefferson City High shows the range hidden by Jefferson City's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.
Jefferson City school enrollment ranges from 16 students (lowest) to 1,353 students (highest), a spread of 1,337 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
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.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Blair Oaks Intermediate | 64 |
| 2. | Cedar Hill Elem. | 58 |
| 3. | Blair Oaks Middle School | 58 |
| 4. | Blair Oaks Elem. | 56 |
| 5. | Blair Oaks High | 54 |
| 6. | East Elem. | 54 |
| 7. | Moreau Heights Elem. | 53 |
| 8. | Belair Elem. | 52 |
| 9. | West Elem. | 52 |
| 10. | South Elem. | 51 |
| 11. | Clarence Lawson Elem. | 50 |
| 12. | Pioneer Trail Elementary | 50 |
| 13. | Thorpe J. Gordon Elem. | 49 |
| 14. | Lewis and Clark Middle | 46 |
| 15. | Thomas Jefferson Middle | 43 |
| 16. | Southwest Early Childhood Ctr | 41 |
| 17. | Jefferson City High | 39 |
| 18. | Capital City High School | 39 |
| 19. | H Kenneth Kirchner School | 39 |
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.
Blair Oaks Intermediate has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Jefferson City schools in this federal-data comparison at 64/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Jefferson City has 19 public schools with a total enrollment of 9,079 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.9:1.
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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.
