NCES CCD 2024-25 11 schools NJ

Best-Resourced Schools in Linden, NJ

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11 public K-12 schools in Linden 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
6,441
Students
59.2/100
Avg Resource Index
11.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Linden has more public-school enrollment than 66% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Linden 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.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

8 of Linden'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

Linden's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 98th 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 22-point gap between Number 9 and Number 2 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 34%
School count
Top 35%
Resource Index average
98th percentile
Teacher staffing
93rd percentile

Linden High School accounts for 30.0% of all Linden public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Linden-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

Linden school enrollment varies 6.5× across entities

Linden school enrollment ranges from 299 students (lowest) to 1,934 students (highest), a spread of 1,635 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

Linden operates one school district — a single-district system

Linden'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

Linden student-teacher ratio is 11.2:1 — 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. Number 9 69
2. Number 10 68
3. Number 8 65
4. Number 1 64
5. Number 4 64
6. Number 5 61
7. Myles J. Mcmanus Middle School 56
8. Number 6 56
9. Joseph E. Soehl Middle School 52
10. Linden High School 49
11. Number 2 47

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Linden

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 Number 9 70.3/100
  2. 2 Myles J. Mcmanus Middle School 65.7/100
  3. 3 Number 6 64.8/100
  4. 4 Joseph E. Soehl Middle School 63.2/100
  5. 5 Number 1 62.4/100

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Which Linden school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Number 9 has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Linden schools in this federal-data comparison at 69/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Linden, NJ? ▼

Linden has 11 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,441 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.2:1.

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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.