NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools MO

Best-Resourced Schools in Neosho, MO

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9 public K-12 schools in Neosho 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
4,767
Students
45.3/100
Avg Resource Index
14.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Neosho has more public-school enrollment than 53% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Neosho 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.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

5 of Neosho's 9 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 1 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Neosho lists only 9 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 112 to 1,530 students, a 14-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 47%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
71st percentile
Teacher staffing
66th percentile

Neosho High accounts for 32.1% of all Neosho public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Neosho-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

Neosho school enrollment varies 14× across entities

Neosho school enrollment ranges from 112 students (lowest) to 1,530 students (highest), a spread of 1,418 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

Neosho student-teacher ratio is 14.1:1 — 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 Neosho is typically wider than the Neosho-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Central Elem. 57
2. George Washington Carver Elem. 54
3. South Elem. 53
4. Middle Sch. 49
5. Benton Elem. 47
6. Field Early Child./Kdgn. Ctr. 43
7. Westview Elem. 42
8. Neosho High 33
9. Neosho Jr. High 30

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Neosho

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 South Elem. 68.2/100
  2. 2 Benton Elem. 64.0/100
  3. 3 Neosho Jr. High 57.6/100
  4. 4 Neosho High 56.3/100
  5. 5 Middle Sch. 55.4/100

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Which Neosho school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Central Elem. has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Neosho schools in this federal-data comparison at 57/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Neosho, MO? ▼

Neosho has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,767 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.1:1.

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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.