NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools OH

Best-Resourced Schools in Hillsboro, OH

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6 public K-12 schools in Hillsboro 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
2,650
Students
33/100
Avg Resource Index
17.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Hillsboro has more public-school enrollment than 23% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Hillsboro'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.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

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

Economic-need coverage is incomplete

Free-lunch eligibility is reported for schools covering 53.4% of Hillsboro's listed enrollment. Because the remaining enrollment is outside that calculation, the measured percentage should not be generalized to every local student. The Resource Investment Index uses other reported federal fields and has its own coverage limits. Treat the city figures as a map of available records: inspect a campus's source fields before using economic need or resource position in a comparison.

City enrollment
Top 77%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
19th percentile
Teacher staffing
28th percentile

Hillsboro High School accounts for 24.1% of all Hillsboro public-school enrollment

That concentration means Hillsboro-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

Hillsboro school enrollment varies 2.1× across entities

Hillsboro school enrollment ranges from 308 students (lowest) to 638 students (highest), a spread of 330 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

Hillsboro reports 74.8% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Hillsboro student-teacher ratio is 17.7:1 — 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 Hillsboro is typically wider than the Hillsboro-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Bright Elementary School 53
2. Hillsboro High School 36
3. Hillsboro Intermediate School 29
4. Hillsboro Primary School 28
5. Hillsboro Middle School 27
6. Hillsboro Early Childhood Center 25

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Which Hillsboro school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Bright Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Hillsboro schools in this federal-data comparison at 53/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Hillsboro, OH? ▼

Hillsboro has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,650 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 17.7:1.

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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.