NCES CCD 2024-25 13 schools ND

Best-Resourced Schools in Williston, ND

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

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13
Schools
5,250
Students
35.1/100
Avg Resource Index
14.4:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Williston has more public-school enrollment than 57% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Williston's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

10 of Williston's 13 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 2 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

Williston's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 26th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 62nd percentile. The 36-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 43%
School count
Top 28%
Resource Index average
26th percentile
Teacher staffing
62nd percentile

Williston High School accounts for 26.1% of all Williston public-school enrollment

That concentration means Williston-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

Williston school enrollment varies 42× across entities

Williston school enrollment ranges from 33 students (lowest) to 1,370 students (highest), a spread of 1,337 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme heterogeneity inside a single city, with small specialty programs listed alongside large comprehensive campuses. 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

Williston operates one school district — a single-district system

Williston'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

Williston student-teacher ratio is 14.4:1 — 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 Williston is typically wider than the Williston-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Lewis and Clark Elementary School 49
2. Del Easton Alternative High School 47
3. Rickard Elementary School 45
4. Round Prairie Elementary School 43
5. Wilkinson Elementary School 40
6. Williston Middle School 34
7. Asb Innovation Academy 34
8. Hagan Elementary School 33
9. Williston High School 31
10. Garden Valley Elementary School 27
11. Missouri Ridge Middle School 26
12. Bakken Elementary School 24
13. Mcvay Elementary School 23

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Williston

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 Hagan Elementary School 64.6/100
  2. 2 Mcvay Elementary School 63.7/100
  3. 3 Del Easton Alternative High School 63.4/100
  4. 4 Missouri Ridge Middle School 56.9/100
  5. 5 Wilkinson Elementary School 56.9/100

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Which Williston school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Lewis and Clark Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Williston schools in this federal-data comparison at 49/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Williston, ND? ▼

Williston has 13 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,250 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.4:1.

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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.