NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools OH

Best-Resourced Schools in North Canton, OH

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

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7
Schools
5,482
Students
47.7/100
Avg Resource Index
25.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, North Canton has more public-school enrollment than 59% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. North Canton's 7 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

4 of North Canton's 7 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.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

North Canton's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 80th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 13-point gap between Clearmount Elementary School and Orchard Hill Intermediate School measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 41%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
80th percentile
Teacher staffing
1st percentile

Hoover High School accounts for 27.4% of all North Canton public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means North Canton-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

North Canton school enrollment varies 8.8× across entities

North Canton school enrollment ranges from 171 students (lowest) to 1,502 students (highest), a spread of 1,331 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

North Canton operates one school district — a single-district system

North Canton'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

North Canton student-teacher ratio is 25.9:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)

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 Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Clearmount Elementary School 53
2. Hoover High School 52
3. North Canton Middle School 51
4. Greentown Intermediate School 49
5. Northwood Elementary School 46
6. Mary L Evans Early Childhood Center 43
7. Orchard Hill Intermediate School 40

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in North Canton

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 Clearmount Elementary School 33.7/100
  2. 2 Orchard Hill Intermediate School 32.4/100
  3. 3 North Canton Middle School 28.0/100
  4. 4 Hoover High School 23.1/100

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Which North Canton school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Clearmount Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the North Canton 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 North Canton, OH? ▼

North Canton has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,482 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 25.9:1.

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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.