NCES CCD 2024-25 13 schools NY

Best-Resourced Schools in Ithaca, NY

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

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13
Schools
5,122
Students
41.6/100
Avg Resource Index
8.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Ithaca has more public-school enrollment than 56% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Ithaca 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.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

7 of Ithaca's 13 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.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Ithaca's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 53rd percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 99th percentile. The 46-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 44%
School count
Top 28%
Resource Index average
53rd percentile
Teacher staffing
99th percentile

Ithaca Senior High School accounts for 27.5% of all Ithaca public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Ithaca-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

Ithaca school enrollment varies 14× across entities

Ithaca school enrollment ranges from 98 students (lowest) to 1,411 students (highest), a spread of 1,313 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

Ithaca student-teacher ratio is 8.6:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)

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 Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga Boces 61
2. Dewitt Middle School 52
3. Lehman Alternative Community School 47
4. Ithaca Senior High School 46
5. New Roots Charter School 46
6. Boynton Middle School 45
7. Northeast School 41
8. South Hill School 35
9. Belle Sherman School 35
10. Beverly J Martin Elementary School 34
11. Enfield School 34
12. Cayuga Heights Elementary School 33
13. Fall Creek Elementary School 32

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Ithaca

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 Beverly J Martin Elementary School 72.6/100
  2. 2 Belle Sherman School 69.2/100
  3. 3 Northeast School 67.8/100
  4. 4 Dewitt Middle School 60.2/100
  5. 5 Ithaca Senior High School 58.0/100

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Which Ithaca school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga Boces has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Ithaca schools in this federal-data comparison at 61/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Ithaca, NY? ▼

Ithaca has 13 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,122 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 8.6:1.

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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.