NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools MO

Best-Resourced Schools in Kearney, MO

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9 public K-12 schools in Kearney 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
3,424
Students
49.8/100
Avg Resource Index
12.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Kearney has more public-school enrollment than 35% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Kearney 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.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Kearney's list includes 4 elementary, 1 middle, and 1 high-school campus, plus 3 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.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Kearney lists only 9 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 44 to 814 students, a 19-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 65%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
86th percentile
Teacher staffing
83rd percentile

Kearney High accounts for 23.8% of all Kearney public-school enrollment

That concentration means Kearney-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

Kearney school enrollment varies 19× across entities

Kearney school enrollment ranges from 44 students (lowest) to 814 students (highest), a spread of 770 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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

Kearney operates one school district — a single-district system

Kearney'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

Kearney student-teacher ratio is 12.6:1 — 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. Kearney Elem. 63
2. Kearney Middle 54
3. Lens 52
4. Kearney Early Education Center 50
5. Kearney Jr. High 49
6. Dogwood Elem. 47
7. Southview Elem. 47
8. Hawthorne Elem. 45
9. Kearney High 41

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Kearney

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 Kearney Early Education Center 31.7/100
  2. 2 Lens 24.1/100
  3. 3 Hawthorne Elem. 22.1/100
  4. 4 Kearney Middle 21.5/100
  5. 5 Kearney Elem. 20.0/100

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Which Kearney school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Kearney Elem. has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Kearney 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 Kearney, MO? ▼

Kearney has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,424 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.6:1.

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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.