NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools OH

Best-Resourced Schools in Bowling Green, OH

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

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8
Schools
3,386
Students
38/100
Avg Resource Index
16.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Bowling Green has more public-school enrollment than 34% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Bowling Green 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

Bowling Green's list includes 3 elementary, 2 middle, and 2 high-school campuses, 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.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 24-point gap between Bowling Green Middle School and Bowling Green Preschool shows the range hidden by Bowling Green's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 66%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
37th percentile
Teacher staffing
40th percentile

Bowling Green High School accounts for 23.6% of all Bowling Green public-school enrollment

That concentration means Bowling Green-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

Bowling Green school enrollment varies 8.2× across entities

Bowling Green school enrollment ranges from 98 students (lowest) to 799 students (highest), a spread of 701 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

Bowling Green student-teacher ratio is 16.3:1 — 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 Bowling Green is typically wider than the Bowling Green-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Bowling Green Middle School 50
2. Kenwood Elementary School 46
3. Conneaut Elementary School 44
4. Otsego High School 41
5. Crim Elementary School 39
6. Bowling Green High School 30
7. Otsego Junior High 28
8. Bowling Green Preschool 26

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Bowling Green

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 Crim Elementary School 58.4/100
  2. 2 Conneaut Elementary School 43.5/100
  3. 3 Bowling Green Middle School 41.4/100
  4. 4 Kenwood Elementary School 36.6/100
  5. 5 Bowling Green Preschool 33.8/100

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Which Bowling Green school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Bowling Green Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Bowling Green schools in this federal-data comparison at 50/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Bowling Green, OH? ▼

Bowling Green has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,386 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.3:1.

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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.