NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools OH

Best-Resourced Schools in Beachwood, OH

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

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Schools
1,583
Students
49.2/100
Avg Resource Index
14.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Beachwood has more public-school enrollment than 7% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Beachwood High School enrolls 39.2% of Beachwood's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Beachwood's list includes 2 elementary, 1 middle, and 1 high-school campus, plus 1 combined-grade record. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Beachwood's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 85th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 31-point gap between Beachwood Middle School and Fairmount Early Childhood Center measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 93%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
85th percentile
Teacher staffing
63rd percentile

Beachwood High School accounts for 39.2% of all Beachwood public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Beachwood-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

Beachwood school enrollment varies 8.2× across entities

Beachwood school enrollment ranges from 76 students (lowest) to 620 students (highest), a spread of 544 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

Beachwood operates one school district — a single-district system

Beachwood'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

Beachwood student-teacher ratio is 14.3:1 — 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 Beachwood is typically wider than the Beachwood-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Beachwood Middle School 58
2. Hilltop Elementary School 58
3. Beachwood High School 55
4. Bryden Elementary School 48
5. Fairmount Early Childhood Center 27

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Beachwood

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 Bryden Elementary School 74.7/100
  2. 2 Hilltop Elementary School 73.1/100
  3. 3 Beachwood Middle School 71.4/100
  4. 4 Beachwood High School 67.6/100
  5. 5 Fairmount Early Childhood Center 67.1/100

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Which Beachwood school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Beachwood Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Beachwood schools in this federal-data comparison at 58/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Beachwood, OH? ▼

Beachwood has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,583 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.3:1.

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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.