NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools NY

Best-Resourced Schools in Saratoga Springs, NY

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7 public K-12 schools in Saratoga Springs 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
5,373
Students
43.4/100
Avg Resource Index
12.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

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

5 of Saratoga Springs'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.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 7-point gap between Dorothy Nolan Elementary School and Saratoga Springs High School shows the range hidden by Saratoga Springs's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 41%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
62nd percentile
Teacher staffing
88th percentile

Saratoga Springs High School accounts for 34.4% of all Saratoga Springs public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Saratoga Springs-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

Saratoga Springs school enrollment varies 5.5× across entities

Saratoga Springs school enrollment ranges from 337 students (lowest) to 1,847 students (highest), a spread of 1,510 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

Saratoga Springs operates one school district — a single-district system

Saratoga Springs'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

Saratoga Springs student-teacher ratio is 12.1:1 — 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. Dorothy Nolan Elementary School 47
2. Division Street Elementary School 47
3. Lake Avenue Elementary School 47
4. Maple Avenue Middle School 42
5. Caroline Street Elementary School 41
6. Saratoga Springs High School 40
7. Geyser Road Elementary School 40

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Saratoga Springs

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 Caroline Street Elementary School 38.0/100
  2. 2 Division Street Elementary School 33.6/100
  3. 3 Geyser Road Elementary School 28.4/100
  4. 4 Saratoga Springs High School 27.1/100
  5. 5 Lake Avenue Elementary School 25.5/100

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Which Saratoga Springs school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Dorothy Nolan Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Saratoga Springs schools in this federal-data comparison at 47/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Saratoga Springs, NY? ▼

Saratoga Springs has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,373 students. 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.