21 public K-12 schools in Poughkeepsie from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Poughkeepsie has more public-school enrollment than 77% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Poughkeepsie 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.
14 of Poughkeepsie's 21 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 2 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.
Poughkeepsie's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 39th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 88th percentile. The 49-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.
Poughkeepsie school enrollment ranges from 202 students (lowest) to 1,151 students (highest), a spread of 949 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
Each school district has independent budgeting, hiring, and service delivery authority. The fragmentation reflects historical patterns of inter-municipal boundary lines that pre-date modern city growth, students in different parts of the same city can attend different districts with different per-pupil spending, calendars, and graduation requirements. Per-region variation is largest in fragmented systems because each school district sets its own budget, contracts, and priorities without higher-level coordination above the regulatory floor.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
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.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Dutchess Boces | 58 |
| 2. | Orville a Todd Middle School | 56 |
| 3. | Noxon Road Elementary School | 54 |
| 4. | Spackenkill High School | 53 |
| 5. | Hagan School | 52 |
| 6. | Nassau School | 47 |
| 7. | Titusville Intermediate | 46 |
| 8. | Arthur S May School | 43 |
| 9. | Overlook Primary School | 41 |
| 10. | Poughkeepsie Middle School | 36 |
| 11. | Oak Grove Elementary School | 36 |
| 12. | Vassar Road Elementary School | 36 |
| 13. | Kinry Road Elementary School | 32 |
| 14. | Poughkeepsie High School | 30 |
| 15. | Morse Young Magnet School | 30 |
| 16. | Violet Avenue School | 29 |
| 17. | Warring Magnet Academy of Science and Technology | 29 |
| 18. | Gov George Clinton School | 27 |
| 19. | G W Krieger School | 26 |
| 20. | Smith Early Learning Center | 11 |
| 21. | Little Water Preparatory Charter School | - |
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.
Dutchess Boces has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Poughkeepsie schools in this federal-data comparison at 58/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Poughkeepsie has 21 public schools with a total enrollment of 8,899 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.1:1.
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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.
