NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools NY

Best-Resourced Schools in Garden City, NY

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8 public K-12 schools in Garden City 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
5,729
Students
56.5/100
Avg Resource Index
11.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Garden City has more public-school enrollment than 61% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Garden City 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

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

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Garden City lists only 8 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 151 to 1,797 students, a 12-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 39%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
97th percentile
Teacher staffing
91st percentile

Nassau Boces accounts for 31.4% of all Garden City public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Garden City-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Combined. 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

Garden City school enrollment varies 12× across entities

Garden City school enrollment ranges from 151 students (lowest) to 1,797 students (highest), a spread of 1,646 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

Garden City student-teacher ratio is 11.6:1 — 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. Nassau Boces 82
2. Garden City High School 56
3. Stewart School 55
4. Homestead School 55
5. Locust School 55
6. Stratford Avenue School 53
7. Garden City Middle School 49
8. Hemlock School 47

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Garden City

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 Nassau Boces 71.8/100
  2. 2 Homestead School 44.9/100
  3. 3 Stewart School 44.5/100
  4. 4 Locust School 44.2/100
  5. 5 Garden City Middle School 39.7/100

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Which Garden City school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Nassau Boces has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Garden City schools in this federal-data comparison at 82/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Garden City, NY? ▼

Garden City has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,729 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.6:1.

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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.