NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools OH

Best-Resourced Schools in Cortland, OH

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6 public K-12 schools in Cortland 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
2,242
Students
46.8/100
Avg Resource Index
15.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Cortland has more public-school enrollment than 16% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Cortland 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.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

4 of Cortland's 6 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 0 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 34-point gap between Currie Elementary School and Lakeview Elementary School shows the range hidden by Cortland'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 84%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
77th percentile
Teacher staffing
52nd percentile

Lakeview High School accounts for 25.9% of all Cortland public-school enrollment

That concentration means Cortland-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

Cortland school enrollment varies 4.1× across entities

Cortland school enrollment ranges from 140 students (lowest) to 580 students (highest), a spread of 440 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

Cortland student-teacher ratio is 15.2:1 — 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 Cortland is typically wider than the Cortland-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Currie Elementary School 65
2. Maplewood Elementary School 48
3. Maplewood High School 48
4. Lakeview High School 45
5. Lakeview Middle School 44
6. Lakeview Elementary School 31

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Which Cortland school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Currie Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Cortland schools in this federal-data comparison at 65/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Cortland, OH? ▼

Cortland has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,242 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.2:1.

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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.