NCES CCD 2024-25 11 schools NE

Best-Resourced Schools in Norfolk, NE

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

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11
Schools
4,543
Students
52.1/100
Avg Resource Index
15.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Norfolk has more public-school enrollment than 51% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Norfolk 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.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

8 of Norfolk's 11 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

Norfolk's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 92nd 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 47-point gap between Woodland Park Elementary Sch and Little Panthers Preschool 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 49%
School count
Top 35%
Resource Index average
92nd percentile
Teacher staffing
48th percentile

Norfolk Senior High School accounts for 29.9% of all Norfolk public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Norfolk-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

Norfolk school enrollment varies 7.5× across entities

Norfolk school enrollment ranges from 182 students (lowest) to 1,359 students (highest), a spread of 1,177 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

Norfolk operates one school district — a single-district system

Norfolk'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

Norfolk student-teacher ratio is 15.5:1 — 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 Norfolk is typically wider than the Norfolk-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Woodland Park Elementary Sch 66
2. Westside Elementary School 63
3. Jefferson Elementary School 59
4. Washington Elementary School 57
5. Bel Air Elementary School 56
6. Norfolk Jr High School 55
7. Norfolk Middle School 55
8. Grant Elementary School 53
9. Lincoln Elementary School 46
10. Norfolk Senior High School 44
11. Little Panthers Preschool 19

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Norfolk

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 Westside Elementary School 61.4/100
  2. 2 Jefferson Elementary School 59.6/100
  3. 3 Little Panthers Preschool 59.2/100
  4. 4 Grant Elementary School 58.7/100
  5. 5 Washington Elementary School 57.6/100

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Which Norfolk school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Woodland Park Elementary Sch has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Norfolk schools in this federal-data comparison at 66/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Norfolk, NE? ▼

Norfolk has 11 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,543 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.5:1.

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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.