NCES CCD 2024-25 11 schools NC

Best-Resourced Schools in Kannapolis, NC

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

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11
Schools
7,431
Students
37.6/100
Avg Resource Index
16.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Kannapolis has more public-school enrollment than 71% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Kannapolis 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

7 of Kannapolis's 11 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 1 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Economic need crosses separate district systems

87.7% of enrollment in reporting Kannapolis schools is eligible for free lunch, while the city list spans 3 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 20-point gap between North Kannapolis Elementary and A L Brown High 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 29%
School count
Top 35%
Resource Index average
35th percentile
Teacher staffing
41st percentile

A L Brown High accounts for 23.6% of all Kannapolis public-school enrollment

That concentration means Kannapolis-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

Kannapolis school enrollment varies 5.9× across entities

Kannapolis school enrollment ranges from 296 students (lowest) to 1,753 students (highest), a spread of 1,457 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

Kannapolis reports 87.7% 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

Kannapolis student-teacher ratio is 16.2:1 — 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 Kannapolis is typically wider than the Kannapolis-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. North Kannapolis Elementary 47
2. Kannapolis Middle 44
3. Concord Lake Steam Academy 42
4. Fred L Wilson Elementary 40
5. Shady Brook Elementary 39
6. Royal Oaks Elementary 38
7. Charles E Boger Elementary 37
8. Jackson Park Elementary 36
9. Forest Park Elementary 33
10. Gw Carver Elementary 31
11. A L Brown High 27

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Kannapolis

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 Forest Park Elementary 72.7/100
  2. 2 Charles E Boger Elementary 72.1/100
  3. 3 Shady Brook Elementary 71.9/100
  4. 4 Gw Carver Elementary 71.1/100
  5. 5 Royal Oaks Elementary 70.2/100

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Which Kannapolis school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

North Kannapolis Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Kannapolis schools in this federal-data comparison at 47/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Kannapolis, NC? ▼

Kannapolis has 11 public schools with a total enrollment of 7,431 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.2:1.

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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.