NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools NY

Best-Resourced Schools in Horseheads, NY

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

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6
Schools
3,331
Students
42.5/100
Avg Resource Index
12.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Horseheads has more public-school enrollment than 34% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Horseheads's 6 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

3 of Horseheads's 6 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.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 12-point gap between Horseheads Senior High School and Center Street School shows the range hidden by Horseheads'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 66%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
58th percentile
Teacher staffing
80th percentile

Horseheads Senior High School accounts for 33.6% of all Horseheads public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Horseheads-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

Horseheads school enrollment varies 3.7× across entities

Horseheads school enrollment ranges from 306 students (lowest) to 1,119 students (highest), a spread of 813 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

Horseheads operates one school district — a single-district system

Horseheads'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

Horseheads student-teacher ratio is 12.9:1 — 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. Horseheads Senior High School 49
2. Horseheads Middle School 44
3. Horseheads Intermediate School 43
4. Ridge Road School 42
5. Gardner Road Elementary School 40
6. Center Street School 37

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Horseheads

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 Gardner Road Elementary School 42.9/100
  2. 2 Center Street School 34.5/100
  3. 3 Horseheads Middle School 28.4/100
  4. 4 Horseheads Senior High School 28.2/100
  5. 5 Horseheads Intermediate School 25.1/100

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Which Horseheads school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Horseheads Senior High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Horseheads schools in this federal-data comparison at 49/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Horseheads, NY? ▼

Horseheads has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,331 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.9:1.

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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.