NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools NY

Best-Resourced Schools in Westbury, NY

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8 public K-12 schools in Westbury 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
5,362
Students
38.6/100
Avg Resource Index
12.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Westbury has more public-school enrollment than 58% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Westbury 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.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

4 of Westbury's 8 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 2 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

Westbury's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 39th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 86th 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 42%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
39th percentile
Teacher staffing
86th percentile

Westbury Middle School accounts for 17.6% of all Westbury public-school enrollment

That concentration means Westbury-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Middle. 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

Westbury school enrollment varies 2.3× across entities

Westbury school enrollment ranges from 415 students (lowest) to 945 students (highest), a spread of 530 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

Westbury student-teacher ratio is 12.3:1 — 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. Clarke Middle School 55
2. Bowling Green School 53
3. W Tresper Clarke High School 48
4. Westbury Middle School 39
5. Powells Lane School 34
6. Park Avenue School 32
7. Drexel Avenue School 31
8. Dryden Street School 17

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Westbury

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 Bowling Green School 71.5/100
  2. 2 W Tresper Clarke High School 69.3/100
  3. 3 Clarke Middle School 69.3/100
  4. 4 Dryden Street School 45.1/100
  5. 5 Powells Lane School 44.9/100

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Which Westbury school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Clarke Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Westbury schools in this federal-data comparison at 55/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Westbury, NY? ▼

Westbury has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,362 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.3:1.

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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.