NCES CCD 2024-25 11 schools NY

Best-Resourced Schools in Clifton Park, NY

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11 public K-12 schools in Clifton Park 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
8,838
Students
48.7/100
Avg Resource Index
13.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Clifton Park has more public-school enrollment than 77% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Clifton Park 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.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

7 of Clifton Park's 11 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 3 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Clifton Park's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 83rd 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 21-point gap between Gowana Middle School and Skano Elementary School 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 23%
School count
Top 35%
Resource Index average
83rd percentile
Teacher staffing
76th percentile

Shenendehowa High School accounts for 33.6% of all Clifton Park public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Clifton Park-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

Clifton Park school enrollment varies 8.2× across entities

Clifton Park school enrollment ranges from 361 students (lowest) to 2,968 students (highest), a spread of 2,607 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

Clifton Park operates one school district — a single-district system

Clifton Park'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

Clifton Park student-teacher ratio is 13.3:1 — 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. Gowana Middle School 58
2. Shenendehowa High School 57
3. Acadia Middle School 57
4. Koda Middle School 54
5. Tesago Elementary School 54
6. Karigon Elementary School 50
7. Okte Elementary School 46
8. Shatekon Elementary School 42
9. Orenda Elementary School 42
10. Arongen Elementary School 39
11. Skano Elementary School 37

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Clifton Park

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 Arongen Elementary School 57.1/100
  2. 2 Tesago Elementary School 56.3/100
  3. 3 Skano Elementary School 54.2/100
  4. 4 Koda Middle School 53.6/100
  5. 5 Shatekon Elementary School 53.0/100

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Which Clifton Park school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Gowana Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Clifton Park schools in this federal-data comparison at 58/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Clifton Park, NY? ▼

Clifton Park has 11 public schools with a total enrollment of 8,838 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.3:1.

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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.