NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools NC

Best-Resourced Schools in Dunn, NC

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7 public K-12 schools in Dunn 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
3,460
Students
38.7/100
Avg Resource Index
18:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Dunn has more public-school enrollment than 35% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Dunn 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

Dunn's list includes 1 elementary, 3 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.

Economic need crosses separate district systems

89.6% of enrollment in reporting Dunn schools is eligible for free lunch, while the city list spans 2 districts. That pairing makes a citywide average especially easy to misread: the need measure follows students, but staffing decisions, calendars, program rules, and federal allocations are administered through separate district structures. The 29-point gap between Harnett County Early College and Midway Middle shows how much reported resource capacity can vary inside the same municipal label. Compare schools within the same district first, then use the city view to see how those local systems differ.

City enrollment
Top 65%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
40th percentile
Teacher staffing
25th percentile

Dunn Elementary accounts for 23.5% of all Dunn public-school enrollment

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

Dunn school enrollment varies 4.4× across entities

Dunn school enrollment ranges from 185 students (lowest) to 813 students (highest), a spread of 628 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

Dunn reports 89.6% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share is above 87.5%, so economic need is widespread across the measured student population. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Dunn student-teacher ratio is 18.0:1 — 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 Dunn is typically wider than the Dunn-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Harnett County Early College 54
2. Dunn Middle 45
3. Dunn Elementary 42
4. Plain View Elementary 36
5. Coats-Erwin Middle 35
6. Midway Elementary 34
7. Midway Middle 25

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Dunn

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 Harnett County Early College 71.7/100
  2. 2 Dunn Elementary 67.9/100
  3. 3 Coats-Erwin Middle 66.5/100
  4. 4 Dunn Middle 66.4/100
  5. 5 Midway Middle 63.4/100

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Which Dunn school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Harnett County Early College has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Dunn schools in this federal-data comparison at 54/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Dunn, NC? ▼

Dunn has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,460 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 18:1.

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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.