NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools NY

Best-Resourced Schools in Beacon, NY

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5 public K-12 schools in Beacon 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
2,186
Students
42/100
Avg Resource Index
10.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Beacon has more public-school enrollment than 15% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Beacon High School enrolls 38.0% of Beacon's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

3 of Beacon'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.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Beacon's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 55th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 98th percentile. The 43-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 85%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
55th percentile
Teacher staffing
98th percentile

Beacon High School accounts for 38.0% of all Beacon public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Beacon-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

Beacon school enrollment varies 3.6× across entities

Beacon school enrollment ranges from 234 students (lowest) to 831 students (highest), a spread of 597 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

Beacon operates one school district — a single-district system

Beacon'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

Beacon student-teacher ratio is 10.3:1 — 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. Sargent School 47
2. Rombout Middle School 44
3. J V Forrestal Elementary School 41
4. Beacon High School 40
5. South Avenue School 38

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Beacon

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 South Avenue School 71.3/100
  2. 2 Beacon High School 69.6/100
  3. 3 Rombout Middle School 67.2/100
  4. 4 J V Forrestal Elementary School 64.4/100
  5. 5 Sargent School 61.0/100

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Which Beacon school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Sargent School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Beacon schools in this federal-data comparison at 47/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Beacon, NY? ▼

Beacon has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,186 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 10.3:1.

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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.