NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools OH

Best-Resourced Schools in Circleville, OH

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8 public K-12 schools in Circleville 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
3,789
Students
37.5/100
Avg Resource Index
21.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Circleville has more public-school enrollment than 41% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Circleville 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.

Secondary campuses occupy an unusually large share

3 of the 8 listed Circleville schools are classified as high schools, a substantial share of the local portfolio. Advanced-course access, counseling, and graduation-stage staffing therefore have more weight in the city Resource Index average than they do in an elementary-heavy system.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Circleville lists only 8 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 108 to 1,110 students, a 10-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 59%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
35th percentile
Teacher staffing
10th percentile

Circleville Elementary School accounts for 29.3% of all Circleville public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Circleville-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Combined. 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

Circleville school enrollment varies 10× across entities

Circleville school enrollment ranges from 108 students (lowest) to 1,110 students (highest), a spread of 1,002 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

Circleville student-teacher ratio is 21.6:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Ralph C Starkey (Cjcf) 71
2. Pickaway Elementary School 44
3. George Mcdowell-Exchange Middle School 43
4. Washington Elementary School 40
5. Logan Elm High School 33
6. Circleville Elementary School 26
7. Circleville High School 22
8. Circleville Middle School 21

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Circleville

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 Ralph C Starkey (Cjcf) 34.0/100
  2. 2 Circleville Elementary School 20.9/100
  3. 3 Circleville High School 20.3/100
  4. 4 Circleville Middle School 17.8/100
  5. 5 Logan Elm High School 14.6/100

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Which Circleville school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Ralph C Starkey (Cjcf) has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Circleville schools in this federal-data comparison at 71/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Circleville, OH? ▼

Circleville has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,789 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 21.6:1.

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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.