NCES CCD 2024-25 10 schools NY

Best-Resourced Schools in Oceanside, NY

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

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10
Schools
5,465
Students
49.4/100
Avg Resource Index
11.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Oceanside has more public-school enrollment than 59% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Oceanside 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.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

6 of Oceanside's 10 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 1 middle and 1 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

Oceanside lists only 10 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 35 to 1,668 students, a 48-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 41%
School count
Top 41%
Resource Index average
85th percentile
Teacher staffing
92nd percentile

School 7-Oceanside Senior High School accounts for 30.5% of all Oceanside public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Oceanside-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

Oceanside school enrollment varies 48× across entities

Oceanside school enrollment ranges from 35 students (lowest) to 1,668 students (highest), a spread of 1,633 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme heterogeneity inside a single city, with small specialty programs listed alongside large comprehensive campuses. 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

Oceanside operates one school district — a single-district system

Oceanside'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

Oceanside student-teacher ratio is 11.5:1 — 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. School 7-Oceanside Senior High School 59
2. School 9m-Oceanside Middle School 53
3. School 4 50
4. School 3 49
5. School 9e-Boardman Elementary School 49
6. Castleton Academy High School of Oceanside 49
7. School 2 48
8. School 6-Kindergarten Center 47
9. School 5 46
10. School 8 44

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Oceanside

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 School 4 59.2/100
  2. 2 Castleton Academy High School of Oceanside 58.5/100
  3. 3 School 8 56.8/100
  4. 4 School 2 55.4/100
  5. 5 School 7-Oceanside Senior High School 55.0/100

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Which Oceanside school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

School 7-Oceanside Senior High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Oceanside schools in this federal-data comparison at 59/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Oceanside, NY? ▼

Oceanside has 10 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,465 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.5:1.

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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.