NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools NY

Best-Resourced Schools in Wappingers Falls, NY

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7 public K-12 schools in Wappingers Falls 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
5,546
Students
33.1/100
Avg Resource Index
14.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Wappingers Falls has more public-school enrollment than 60% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Wappingers Falls'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.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Wappingers Falls's list includes 3 elementary, 2 middle, and 1 high-school campus, plus 1 combined-grade record. 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

Wappingers Falls's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 19th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 58th percentile. The 39-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 40%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
19th percentile
Teacher staffing
58th percentile

Roy C Ketcham Senior High School accounts for 28.1% of all Wappingers Falls public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Wappingers Falls-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

Wappingers Falls school enrollment varies 5.2× across entities

Wappingers Falls school enrollment ranges from 297 students (lowest) to 1,557 students (highest), a spread of 1,260 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

Wappingers Falls operates one school district — a single-district system

Wappingers Falls'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

Wappingers Falls student-teacher ratio is 14.7:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

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 Variation between sub-units within Wappingers Falls is typically wider than the Wappingers Falls-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Wappingers Junior High School 45
2. Roy C Ketcham Senior High School 36
3. Van Wyck Junior High School 35
4. Sheafe Road Elementary School 31
5. Fishkill Plains Elementary School 31
6. Myers Corners School 28
7. James S Evans Elementary School 26

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Wappingers Falls

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 Sheafe Road Elementary School 64.7/100
  2. 2 Roy C Ketcham Senior High School 63.2/100
  3. 3 Wappingers Junior High School 61.1/100
  4. 4 James S Evans Elementary School 61.0/100
  5. 5 Myers Corners School 56.9/100

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Which Wappingers Falls school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Wappingers Junior High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Wappingers Falls schools in this federal-data comparison at 45/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Wappingers Falls, NY? ▼

Wappingers Falls has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,546 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.7:1.

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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.