NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools OH

Best-Resourced Schools in Loveland, OH

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8 public K-12 schools in Loveland 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
5,284
Students
38.8/100
Avg Resource Index
20.4:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Loveland has more public-school enrollment than 58% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Loveland 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 Loveland's 8 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 1 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 17-point gap between Symmes Elementary School and Loveland Primary School shows the range hidden by Loveland'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 42%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
40th percentile
Teacher staffing
14th percentile

Loveland High School accounts for 22.8% of all Loveland public-school enrollment

That concentration means Loveland-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

Loveland school enrollment varies 3.4× across entities

Loveland school enrollment ranges from 359 students (lowest) to 1,203 students (highest), a spread of 844 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

Loveland student-teacher ratio is 20.4:1 — 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. Symmes Elementary School 47
2. Mccormick Elementary School 46
3. Loveland Elementary School 42
4. Loveland Intermediate School 38
5. Loveland Middle School 38
6. Loveland Early Childhood Center 36
7. Loveland High School 33
8. Loveland Primary School 30

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Loveland

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 Symmes Elementary School 65.3/100
  2. 2 Loveland Primary School 33.4/100
  3. 3 Loveland Early Childhood Center 29.8/100
  4. 4 Loveland Intermediate School 29.1/100
  5. 5 Loveland Elementary School 27.8/100

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Which Loveland school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Symmes Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Loveland schools in this federal-data comparison at 47/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Loveland, OH? ▼

Loveland has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,284 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 20.4:1.

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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.