NCES CCD 2024-25 11 schools NY

Best-Resourced Schools in Hamburg, NY

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11 public K-12 schools in Hamburg 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
6,786
Students
42.3/100
Avg Resource Index
12:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Hamburg has more public-school enrollment than 68% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Hamburg 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.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Hamburg's list includes 3 elementary, 2 middle, and 2 high-school campuses, plus 4 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.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 23-point gap between Boston Valley Elementary School and Big Tree Elementary School shows the range hidden by Hamburg's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 32%
School count
Top 35%
Resource Index average
57th percentile
Teacher staffing
88th percentile

Frontier Senior High School accounts for 19.1% of all Hamburg public-school enrollment

That concentration means Hamburg-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

Hamburg school enrollment varies 18× across entities

Hamburg school enrollment ranges from 73 students (lowest) to 1,293 students (highest), a spread of 1,220 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

Hamburg student-teacher ratio is 12.0:1 — 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. Boston Valley Elementary School 53
2. Randolph Academyhamburg Campus 51
3. Hamburg Middle School 49
4. Hamburg High School 44
5. Cloverbank Elementary School 44
6. Frontier Senior High School 43
7. Armor Elementary School 42
8. Frontier Middle School 39
9. Union Pleasant Avenue Elementary School 37
10. Charlotte Avenue Elementary School 33
11. Big Tree Elementary School 30

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Hamburg

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 Randolph Academyhamburg Campus 54.0/100
  2. 2 Union Pleasant Avenue Elementary School 24.3/100
  3. 3 Big Tree Elementary School 24.3/100
  4. 4 Frontier Middle School 22.4/100
  5. 5 Frontier Senior High School 22.3/100

What do families ask about schools in Hamburg?

Which Hamburg school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Boston Valley Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Hamburg schools in this federal-data comparison at 53/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Hamburg, NY? ▼

Hamburg has 11 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,786 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12:1.

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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.