22 public K-12 schools in Massillon from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Massillon has more public-school enrollment than 89% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Massillon 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.
13 of Massillon's 22 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 2 middle and 5 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.
The 36-point gap between Perry High School and Massillon Preschool shows the range hidden by Massillon'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.
Massillon school enrollment ranges from 126 students (lowest) to 1,881 students (highest), a spread of 1,755 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
Each school district has independent budgeting, hiring, and service delivery authority. The fragmentation reflects historical patterns of inter-municipal boundary lines that pre-date modern city growth, students in different parts of the same city can attend different districts with different per-pupil spending, calendars, and graduation requirements. Per-region variation is largest in fragmented systems because each school district sets its own budget, contracts, and priorities without higher-level coordination above the regulatory floor.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
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.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Perry High School | 51 |
| 2. | Pfeiffer Intermediate School | 46 |
| 3. | Tuslaw High School | 46 |
| 4. | Edison Middle School | 45 |
| 5. | Indian River (Irjcf) | 44 |
| 6. | Tuslaw Elementary School | 43 |
| 7. | Jackson High School | 39 |
| 8. | Amherst Elementary School | 39 |
| 9. | Whittier Elementary School | 39 |
| 10. | Jackson Memorial Middle School | 38 |
| 11. | Sauder Elementary School | 38 |
| 12. | Watson Elementary School | 38 |
| 13. | Genoa Elementary School | 38 |
| 14. | Gorrell Elementary School | 37 |
| 15. | Strausser Elementary School | 36 |
| 16. | Massillon Junior High School | 36 |
| 17. | Washington High School | 35 |
| 18. | Tuslaw Middle School | 35 |
| 19. | Franklin Elementary School | 27 |
| 20. | Massillon Intermediate School | 26 |
| 21. | R G Drage Career Technical Ctr | 25 |
| 22. | Massillon Preschool | 15 |
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.
Perry High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Massillon schools in this federal-data comparison at 51/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Massillon has 22 public schools with a total enrollment of 15,035 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 20.1:1.
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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.
