NCES CCD 2024-25 17 schools OH

Best-Resourced Schools in Grove City, OH

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

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17
Schools
11,538
Students
30.9/100
Avg Resource Index
21.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Grove City has more public-school enrollment than 84% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Grove City'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

9 of Grove City's 17 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 3 middle and 2 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 Jc Sommer Elementary School and South-Western Preschool Center shows the range hidden by Grove City'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 16%
School count
Top 19%
Resource Index average
14th percentile
Teacher staffing
9th percentile

Grove City High School accounts for 16.3% of all Grove City public-school enrollment

That concentration means Grove City-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

Grove City school enrollment varies 13× across entities

Grove City school enrollment ranges from 144 students (lowest) to 1,881 students (highest), a spread of 1,737 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

Grove City operates one school district — a single-district system

Grove City'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

Grove City student-teacher ratio is 21.7:1 — 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. Jc Sommer Elementary School 49
2. Buckeye Woods Elementary School 47
3. Monterey Elementary School 43
4. Hayes Intermediate School 37
5. Richard Avenue Elementary School 36
6. Pleasant View Middle School 35
7. Darbydale Elementary School 33
8. The Bostic Head Start Center 30
9. Jackson Middle School 29
10. James a Harmon Elementary School 29
11. Highland Park Elementary School 29
12. Beulah Park Middle School 27
13. Holt Crossing Intermediate School 24
14. Park Street Intermediate School 24
15. Grove City High School 23
16. Central Crossing High School 16
17. South-Western Preschool Center 15

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Grove City

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 Holt Crossing Intermediate School 71.4/100
  2. 2 The Bostic Head Start Center 70.6/100
  3. 3 Pleasant View Middle School 68.9/100
  4. 4 Central Crossing High School 65.9/100
  5. 5 James a Harmon Elementary School 63.9/100

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Which Grove City school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Jc Sommer Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Grove City 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 Grove City, OH? ▼

Grove City has 17 public schools with a total enrollment of 11,538 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 21.7:1.

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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.