NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools NY

Best-Resourced Schools in Wantagh, NY

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

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6
Schools
3,166
Students
42.2/100
Avg Resource Index
19.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Wantagh has more public-school enrollment than 31% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Wantagh 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.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

3 of Wantagh's 6 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Wantagh's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 56th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 19th 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 69%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
56th percentile
Teacher staffing
19th percentile

Wantagh Senior High School accounts for 26.1% of all Wantagh public-school enrollment

That concentration means Wantagh-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

Wantagh school enrollment varies 2.6× across entities

Wantagh school enrollment ranges from 312 students (lowest) to 826 students (highest), a spread of 514 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

Wantagh student-teacher ratio is 19.1:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Wantagh Senior High School 59
2. Lee Road School 57
3. Wantagh Middle School 50
4. Forest Lake School 36
5. Mandalay School 30
6. Wantagh School 21

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Wantagh

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 Lee Road School 46.9/100
  2. 2 Mandalay School 36.9/100
  3. 3 Forest Lake School 36.2/100
  4. 4 Wantagh Middle School 31.8/100
  5. 5 Wantagh Senior High School 27.8/100

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Which Wantagh school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Wantagh Senior High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Wantagh schools in this federal-data comparison at 59/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Wantagh, NY? ▼

Wantagh has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,166 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 19.1:1.

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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.