20 public K-12 schools in Binghamton from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Binghamton has more public-school enrollment than 77% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Binghamton 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.
10 of Binghamton's 20 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.
Binghamton's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 31st percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 93rd percentile. The 62-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.
Binghamton school enrollment ranges from 9 students (lowest) to 1,262 students (highest), a spread of 1,253 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. 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
The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Each school district has independent budgeting, hiring, and service delivery authority. The fragmentation reflects historical patterns of inter-municipal boundary lines that pre-date modern city growth, students in different parts of the same city can attend different districts with different per-pupil spending, calendars, and graduation requirements. Per-region variation is largest in fragmented systems because each school district sets its own budget, contracts, and priorities without higher-level coordination above the regulatory floor.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
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.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Broome-Delaware-Tioga Boces | 61 |
| 2. | Chenango Forks Middle School | 56 |
| 3. | Chenango Forks High School | 48 |
| 4. | Chenango Valley Middle School | 42 |
| 5. | Chenango Valley High School | 40 |
| 6. | Chenango Bridge Elementary School | 40 |
| 7. | East Middle School | 38 |
| 8. | Binghamton High School | 37 |
| 9. | Thomas Jefferson School | 37 |
| 10. | West Middle School | 34 |
| 11. | Calvin Coolidge School | 33 |
| 12. | Port Dickinson Elementary School | 32 |
| 13. | Horace Mann School | 32 |
| 14. | Theodore Roosevelt School | 31 |
| 15. | Benjamin Franklin Elementary School | 30 |
| 16. | Woodrow Wilson School | 30 |
| 17. | Greater Binghamton Health Center | 30 |
| 18. | Chenango Forks Elementary School | 29 |
| 19. | Macarthur School | 29 |
| 20. | Brookside Elementary School | 24 |
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.
Broome-Delaware-Tioga Boces has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Binghamton schools in this federal-data comparison at 61/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Binghamton has 20 public schools with a total enrollment of 8,930 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.3:1.
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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.
