NCES CCD 2024-25 20 schools OH

Best-Resourced Schools in Medina, OH

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

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20
Schools
11,494
Students
42.2/100
Avg Resource Index
18.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

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

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Medina's list includes 9 elementary, 3 middle, and 3 high-school campuses, plus 5 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.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 16-point gap between A. I. Root Middle School and Highland Middle School shows the range hidden by Medina'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 15%
Resource Index average
56th percentile
Teacher staffing
22nd percentile

Medina High School accounts for 15.4% of all Medina public-school enrollment

That concentration means Medina-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

Medina school enrollment varies 295× across entities

Medina school enrollment ranges from 6 students (lowest) to 1,767 students (highest), a spread of 1,761 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. 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

Medina student-teacher ratio is 18.7:1 — 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. A. I. Root Middle School 51
2. Buckeye Junior High School 51
3. Eliza Northrop Elementary 47
4. Medina High School 46
5. Highland High School 46
6. Heritage Elementary School 46
7. Claggett Middle School 43
8. Granger Elementary School 43
9. H G Blake Elementary School 43
10. Garfield Elementary School 43
11. Evolve Academy 42
12. Buckeye High School 41
13. Ralph E. Waite Elementary 41
14. Ella Canavan Elementary School 40
15. Sidney Fenn Elementary School 39
16. Buckeye Intermediate School 38
17. Buckeye Primary School 38
18. Medina County Career Center 36
19. Highland Middle School 35
20. Highland Virtual Learning Academy 35

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Medina

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 Evolve Academy 57.0/100
  2. 2 H G Blake Elementary School 39.3/100
  3. 3 Claggett Middle School 30.7/100
  4. 4 Eliza Northrop Elementary 30.7/100
  5. 5 Sidney Fenn Elementary School 29.7/100

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Which Medina school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

A. I. Root Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Medina 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.

How many schools are in Medina, OH? ▼

Medina has 20 public schools with a total enrollment of 11,494 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 18.7:1.

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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.