NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools NY

Best-Resourced Schools in Mahopac, NY

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

6
Schools
3,850
Students
47.2/100
Avg Resource Index
9.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Mahopac has more public-school enrollment than 42% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Mahopac'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.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

3 of Mahopac's 6 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 2 middle and 0 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

Mahopac lists only 6 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 14 to 1,255 students, a 90-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 58%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
79th percentile
Teacher staffing
99th percentile

Mahopac High School accounts for 32.6% of all Mahopac public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Mahopac-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

Mahopac school enrollment varies 90× across entities

Mahopac school enrollment ranges from 14 students (lowest) to 1,255 students (highest), a spread of 1,241 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. 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

Mahopac operates one school district — a single-district system

Mahopac'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

Mahopac student-teacher ratio is 9.6:1 — 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

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Mahopac

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 Lakeview Elementary School 55.7/100
  2. 2 Austin Road Elementary School 52.0/100
  3. 3 Mahopac Middle School 51.8/100
  4. 4 Fulmar Road Elementary School 49.5/100
  5. 5 Mahopac High School 49.0/100

What do families ask about schools in Mahopac?

Which Mahopac school has the highest Resource Investment Index?

Lakeview Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Mahopac schools in this federal-data comparison at 52/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Mahopac, NY?

Mahopac has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,850 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 9.6:1.

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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.