NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools NY

Best-Resourced Schools in Port Washington, NY

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

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7
Schools
5,298
Students
46/100
Avg Resource Index
11.4:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Port Washington has more public-school enrollment than 58% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Port Washington's 7 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

4 of Port Washington's 7 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.

Economic-need coverage is incomplete

Free-lunch eligibility is reported for schools covering 68.2% of Port Washington's listed enrollment. Because the remaining enrollment is outside that calculation, the measured percentage should not be generalized to every local student. The Resource Investment Index uses other reported federal fields and has its own coverage limits. Treat the city figures as a map of available records: inspect a campus's source fields before using economic need or resource position in a comparison.

City enrollment
Top 42%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
74th percentile
Teacher staffing
92nd percentile

Paul D Schreiber Senior High School accounts for 31.0% of all Port Washington public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Port Washington-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

Port Washington school enrollment varies 3.8× across entities

Port Washington school enrollment ranges from 435 students (lowest) to 1,643 students (highest), a spread of 1,208 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

Port Washington operates one school district — a single-district system

Port Washington'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

Port Washington student-teacher ratio is 11.4:1 — 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. Paul D Schreiber Senior High School 54
2. John J Daly Elementary School 53
3. Carrie Palmer Weber Middle School 48
4. Guggenheim Elementary School 43
5. South Salem Elementary School 43
6. John Philip Sousa Elementary School 42
7. Manorhaven Elementary School 39

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Port Washington

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 Manorhaven Elementary School 63.0/100
  2. 2 Guggenheim Elementary School 59.3/100
  3. 3 John J Daly Elementary School 59.1/100
  4. 4 Paul D Schreiber Senior High School 58.0/100
  5. 5 Carrie Palmer Weber Middle School 55.7/100

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Which Port Washington school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Paul D Schreiber Senior High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Port Washington schools in this federal-data comparison at 54/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Port Washington, NY? ▼

Port Washington has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,298 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.4:1.

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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.