NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools MO

Best-Resourced Schools in Willard, MO

Compiled from official source data by PlainSchools. · Updated August 2026

5 public K-12 schools in Willard from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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Schools

3,101

Students

53.4/100

Avg Resource Index

13.3:1

Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Willard has more public-school enrollment than 30% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Willard High enrolls 44.5% of Willard's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

2 of Willard's 5 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Willard's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 93rd 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 14-point gap between Willard North Elem. and Willard Middle 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 70%
School count: Top 99%
Resource Index average: 93rd percentile
Teacher staffing: 76th percentile

Willard High accounts for 44.5% of all Willard public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Willard-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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Willard school enrollment varies 4.3× across entities

Willard school enrollment ranges from 322 students (lowest) to 1,379 students (highest), a spread of 1,057 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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Willard operates one school district — a single-district system

Willard'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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Willard 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 Accessed 2026-08-26

#	School	Score	Enrollment	Level	District
1.	Willard North Elem.	60	340	Combined	Willard R-Ii
2.	Willard East Elem.	59	322	Combined	Willard R-Ii
3.	Willard Intermediate North	53	356	elementary	Willard R-Ii
4.	Willard High	49	1,379	high	Willard R-Ii
5.	Willard Middle	46	704	middle	Willard R-Ii

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Willard

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.

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Which Willard school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Willard North Elem. has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Willard schools in this federal-data comparison at 60/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Willard, MO? ▼

Willard has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,101 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.