NCES CCD 2024-25 16 schools NJ

Best-Resourced Schools in Vineland, NJ

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

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16
Schools
10,003
Students
36.1/100
Avg Resource Index
12.4:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Vineland has more public-school enrollment than 80% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Vineland's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

8 of Vineland's 16 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 4 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Economic-need coverage is incomplete

Free-lunch eligibility is reported for schools covering 56.5% of Vineland's listed enrollment. Because the remaining enrollment is outside that calculation, the measured percentage should not be generalized to every local student. The Resource Investment Index uses other reported federal fields and has its own coverage limits. Treat the city figures as a map of available records: inspect a campus's source fields before using economic need or resource position in a comparison.

City enrollment
Top 20%
School count
Top 21%
Resource Index average
29th percentile
Teacher staffing
85th percentile

Vineland Senior High School accounts for 27.4% of all Vineland public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Vineland-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

Vineland school enrollment varies 15× across entities

Vineland school enrollment ranges from 183 students (lowest) to 2,736 students (highest), a spread of 2,553 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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

Vineland student-teacher ratio is 12.4:1 — 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

2 of Vineland's 16 listed schools are charters

13% of the city's listed public-school campuses are reported as charter schools in NCES CCD. Charter status identifies a different governance arrangement; it does not establish admissions availability, academic quality, or the share of city students enrolled in those campuses. Open each school record to compare enrollment and staffing directly.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

# School Score
1. Johnstone Elementary School 62
2. Casimer M. Dallago Jr. Impact Center 49
3. Compass Academy Charter School 44
4. Gloria M Sabater Elementary School 42
5. Marie Durand Elementary School 40
6. Anthony Rossi Elementary School 39
7. Pauline J. Petway Elementary School 39
8. Vineland Senior High School 36
9. John H. Winslow Elementary School 35
10. Sgt. Dominick Pilla Middle School 33
11. Dane Barse Elementary School 32
12. Vineland Public Charter School 31
13. Solve D'ippolito Elementary School 28
14. Thomas W. Wallace Jr. Middle School 25
15. Dr. William Mennies Elementary School 23
16. Veterans Memorial Middle 20

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Vineland

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 John H. Winslow Elementary School 66.9/100
  2. 2 Sgt. Dominick Pilla Middle School 66.2/100
  3. 3 Vineland Public Charter School 65.7/100
  4. 4 Anthony Rossi Elementary School 65.1/100
  5. 5 Pauline J. Petway Elementary School 63.0/100

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Which Vineland school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Johnstone Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Vineland schools in this federal-data comparison at 62/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Vineland, NJ? ▼

Vineland has 16 public schools with a total enrollment of 10,003 students. 2 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.4:1.

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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.