NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools NC

Best-Resourced Schools in King, NC

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6 public K-12 schools in King 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
2,714
Students
49.8/100
Avg Resource Index
14.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, King has more public-school enrollment than 24% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. King's 6 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.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

3 of King'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.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

King lists only 6 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 59 to 799 students, a 14-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 76%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
86th percentile
Teacher staffing
60th percentile

West Stokes High School accounts for 29.4% of all King public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means King-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

King school enrollment varies 14× across entities

King school enrollment ranges from 59 students (lowest) to 799 students (highest), a spread of 740 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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

King operates one school district — a single-district system

King'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

King student-teacher ratio is 14.6:1 — 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 King is typically wider than the King-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Meadowbrook Academy 77
2. West Stokes High School 51
3. Mount Olive Elementary School 49
4. Chestnut Grove Middle School 42
5. Poplar Springs Elementary School 42
6. King Elementary School 38

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in King

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 Meadowbrook Academy 39.5/100
  2. 2 King Elementary School 33.6/100
  3. 3 Poplar Springs Elementary School 29.3/100
  4. 4 West Stokes High School 24.9/100
  5. 5 Chestnut Grove Middle School 23.9/100

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Which King school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Meadowbrook Academy has the highest Resource Investment Index among the King schools in this federal-data comparison at 77/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in King, NC? ▼

King has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,714 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.6:1.

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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.