NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools MO

Best-Resourced Schools in Ozark, MO

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8 public K-12 schools in Ozark 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
5,959
Students
49.1/100
Avg Resource Index
13.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Ozark has more public-school enrollment than 63% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Ozark 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.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

5 of Ozark's 8 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.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Ozark's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 84th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 15-point gap between Ozark Tigerpaw Early Child Ctr and Ozark High measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 37%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
84th percentile
Teacher staffing
76th percentile

Ozark High accounts for 30.0% of all Ozark public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Ozark-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

Ozark school enrollment varies 7.7× across entities

Ozark school enrollment ranges from 233 students (lowest) to 1,789 students (highest), a spread of 1,556 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

Ozark operates one school district — a single-district system

Ozark'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

Ozark student-teacher ratio is 13.3:1 — 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. Ozark Tigerpaw Early Child Ctr 61
2. North Elem. 49
3. South Elem. 49
4. East Elem. 48
5. Ozark Middle School 47
6. West Elem. 47
7. Ozark High 46
8. Ozark Jr. High 46

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Ozark

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 Ozark Tigerpaw Early Child Ctr 30.7/100
  2. 2 South Elem. 29.4/100
  3. 3 West Elem. 28.1/100
  4. 4 Ozark Jr. High 27.3/100
  5. 5 Ozark Middle School 27.3/100

What do families ask about schools in Ozark?

Which Ozark school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Ozark Tigerpaw Early Child Ctr has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Ozark schools in this federal-data comparison at 61/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Ozark, MO? ▼

Ozark has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,959 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.3:1.

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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.