NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools NY

Best-Resourced Schools in Baldwinsville, NY

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

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8
Schools
5,400
Students
43.8/100
Avg Resource Index
15.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Baldwinsville has more public-school enrollment than 59% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Baldwinsville 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

5 of Baldwinsville's 8 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.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 9-point gap between L Pearl Palmer Elementary School and Mae E Reynolds School shows the range hidden by Baldwinsville's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 41%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
64th percentile
Teacher staffing
51st percentile

Charles W Baker High School accounts for 23.0% of all Baldwinsville public-school enrollment

That concentration means Baldwinsville-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

Baldwinsville school enrollment varies 2.7× across entities

Baldwinsville school enrollment ranges from 467 students (lowest) to 1,240 students (highest), a spread of 773 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

Baldwinsville operates one school district — a single-district system

Baldwinsville'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

Baldwinsville student-teacher ratio is 15.3:1 — 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 Baldwinsville is typically wider than the Baldwinsville-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. L Pearl Palmer Elementary School 49
2. Catherine M Mcnamara Elementary School 47
3. Charles W Baker High School 44
4. Donald S Ray School 44
5. Theodore R Durgee Junior High School 43
6. Van Buren Elementary School 42
7. Harry E Elden Elementary School 41
8. Mae E Reynolds School 40

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Baldwinsville

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 Harry E Elden Elementary School 32.9/100
  2. 2 Theodore R Durgee Junior High School 28.1/100
  3. 3 Mae E Reynolds School 27.1/100
  4. 4 Charles W Baker High School 25.1/100
  5. 5 Donald S Ray School 24.7/100

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Which Baldwinsville school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

L Pearl Palmer Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Baldwinsville schools in this federal-data comparison at 49/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Baldwinsville, NY? ▼

Baldwinsville has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,400 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.3:1.

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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.