NCES CCD 2024-25 10 schools NY

Best-Resourced Schools in Rome, NY

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10 public K-12 schools in Rome 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
5,242
Students
32.6/100
Avg Resource Index
11.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Rome has more public-school enrollment than 57% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Rome's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

6 of Rome'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

Rome lists only 10 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 46 to 1,512 students, a 33-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 43%
School count
Top 41%
Resource Index average
18th percentile
Teacher staffing
94th percentile

Rome Free Academy accounts for 28.8% of all Rome public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Rome-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

Rome school enrollment varies 33× across entities

Rome school enrollment ranges from 46 students (lowest) to 1,512 students (highest), a spread of 1,466 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

Rome reports 54.3% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Rome student-teacher ratio is 11.1:1 — 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. New York State School for the Deaf 52
2. Bellamy Elementary School 34
3. Ridge Mills Elementary School 33
4. Louis V Denti Elementary School 32
5. Rome Free Academy 31
6. Stokes Elementary School 31
7. Clough Prek Center 31
8. Gansevoort Elementary School 29
9. John E Joy Elementary School 27
10. Lyndon H Strough Middle School 26

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Rome

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 Bellamy Elementary School 59.5/100
  2. 2 Gansevoort Elementary School 54.1/100
  3. 3 Louis V Denti Elementary School 52.4/100
  4. 4 Clough Prek Center 45.3/100
  5. 5 New York State School for the Deaf 42.6/100

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Which Rome school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

New York State School for the Deaf has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Rome 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 Rome, NY? ▼

Rome has 10 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,242 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.1:1.

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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.