NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools NY

Best-Resourced Schools in Suffern, NY

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

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8
Schools
5,134
Students
40.3/100
Avg Resource Index
12.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Suffern has more public-school enrollment than 56% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Suffern 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.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Suffern's list includes 3 elementary, 2 middle, and 1 high-school campus, plus 2 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Suffern's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 47th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 84th percentile. The 37-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 44%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
47th percentile
Teacher staffing
84th percentile

Suffern Senior High School accounts for 28.2% of all Suffern public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Suffern-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

Suffern school enrollment varies 4.3× across entities

Suffern school enrollment ranges from 338 students (lowest) to 1,450 students (highest), a spread of 1,112 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

Suffern student-teacher ratio is 12.5:1 — 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. Suffern Middle School 49
2. Richard P Connor Elementary School 49
3. Montebello Road School 48
4. Viola Elementary School 48
5. Suffern Senior High School 43
6. Cherry Lane Elementary School 36
7. Pomona Middle School 27
8. Lime Kiln Elementary School 22

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Suffern

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 Montebello Road School 68.0/100
  2. 2 Suffern Senior High School 65.7/100
  3. 3 Suffern Middle School 65.5/100
  4. 4 Cherry Lane Elementary School 61.9/100
  5. 5 Richard P Connor Elementary School 61.5/100

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Which Suffern school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Suffern Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Suffern 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 Suffern, NY? ▼

Suffern has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,134 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.5:1.

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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.