NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools NE

Best-Resourced Schools in La Vista, NE

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

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5
Schools
2,312
Students
48/100
Avg Resource Index
13.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, La Vista has more public-school enrollment than 17% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. La Vista's 5 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

4 of La Vista'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

La Vista's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 81st 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 5-point gap between La Vista West Elementary Sch and La Vista Middle School 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 83%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
81st percentile
Teacher staffing
76th percentile

La Vista Middle School accounts for 31.1% of all La Vista public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means La Vista-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Middle. 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

La Vista school enrollment varies 2.3× across entities

La Vista school enrollment ranges from 315 students (lowest) to 719 students (highest), a spread of 404 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

La Vista operates one school district — a single-district system

La Vista'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

La Vista 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. La Vista West Elementary Sch 51
2. Portal Elementary School 50
3. Parkview Heights Elem School 47
4. La Vista Middle School 46
5. G Stanley Hall Elementary Sch 46

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in La Vista

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 La Vista West Elementary Sch 70.6/100
  2. 2 G Stanley Hall Elementary Sch 64.1/100
  3. 3 Parkview Heights Elem School 63.3/100
  4. 4 La Vista Middle School 51.7/100
  5. 5 Portal Elementary School 43.3/100

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Which La Vista school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

La Vista West Elementary Sch has the highest Resource Investment Index among the La Vista schools in this federal-data comparison at 51/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in La Vista, NE? ▼

La Vista has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,312 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.