NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools NY

Best-Resourced Schools in Great Neck, NY

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

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9
Schools
6,494
Students
58.9/100
Avg Resource Index
10.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Great Neck has more public-school enrollment than 66% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Great Neck 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.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Great Neck's list includes 3 elementary, 2 middle, and 2 high-school campuses, plus 2 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Great Neck lists only 9 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 48 to 1,362 students, a 28-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 34%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
98th percentile
Teacher staffing
97th percentile

Great Neck South High School accounts for 21.0% of all Great Neck public-school enrollment

That concentration means Great Neck-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

Great Neck school enrollment varies 28× across entities

Great Neck school enrollment ranges from 48 students (lowest) to 1,362 students (highest), a spread of 1,314 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. 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

Great Neck operates one school district — a single-district system

Great Neck'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

Great Neck student-teacher ratio is 10.5:1 — 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. Lakeville Elementary School 67
2. Saddle Rock School 66
3. John F Kennedy School 66
4. E M Baker School 64
5. Great Neck North High School 60
6. Great Neck North Middle School 60
7. Great Neck South High School 58
8. Great Neck South Middle School 56
9. Village School 33

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Great Neck

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 Saddle Rock School 61.0/100
  2. 2 Village School 60.3/100
  3. 3 Great Neck North Middle School 57.6/100
  4. 4 John F Kennedy School 57.3/100
  5. 5 E M Baker School 56.6/100

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Which Great Neck school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Lakeville Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Great Neck schools in this federal-data comparison at 67/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Great Neck, NY? ▼

Great Neck has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,494 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 10.5:1.

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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.