NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools NY

Best-Resourced Schools in Scotia, NY

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7 public K-12 schools in Scotia 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
2,572
Students
41/100
Avg Resource Index
10.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact system with teacher-dense staffing

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Scotia has more public-school enrollment than 22% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Scotia is a comparatively small school market by total enrollment, yet its average student-teacher ratio is lower than most cities in the national comparison set. Small scale can make that staffing pattern easier to sustain, but it can also limit the breadth of specialized programs available at any one campus. The school list below shows whether students are concentrated in one combined-grade campus or distributed across separate elementary, middle, and high-school settings.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

5 of Scotia'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.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Scotia's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 50th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 97th percentile. The 47-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.

City enrollment
Top 78%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
50th percentile
Teacher staffing
97th percentile

Scotia-Glenville Senior High School accounts for 26.8% of all Scotia public-school enrollment

That concentration means Scotia-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

Scotia school enrollment varies 3.7× across entities

Scotia school enrollment ranges from 185 students (lowest) to 689 students (highest), a spread of 504 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

Scotia student-teacher ratio is 10.6:1 — 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. Glen-Worden Elementary School 49
2. Scotia-Glenville Middle School 48
3. Glendaal School 41
4. Lincoln School 41
5. Scotia-Glenville Senior High School 40
6. Pashley Elementary School 37
7. Sacandaga School 31

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Scotia

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 Lincoln School 32.5/100
  2. 2 Sacandaga School 31.6/100
  3. 3 Glen-Worden Elementary School 31.4/100
  4. 4 Scotia-Glenville Middle School 29.4/100
  5. 5 Pashley Elementary School 24.0/100

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Which Scotia school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Glen-Worden Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Scotia schools in this federal-data comparison at 49/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Scotia, NY? ▼

Scotia has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,572 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 10.6:1.

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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.