NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools OH

Best-Resourced Schools in Norwood, OH

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6 public K-12 schools in Norwood 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
1,698
Students
34/100
Avg Resource Index
19.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Norwood has more public-school enrollment than 8% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Norwood's 6 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.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

4 of Norwood's 6 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 46-point gap between Williams Avenue Elementary School and The Norwood Montessori School shows the range hidden by Norwood'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 92%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
22nd percentile
Teacher staffing
18th percentile

Norwood High School accounts for 25.6% of all Norwood public-school enrollment

That concentration means Norwood-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

Norwood school enrollment varies 3.5× across entities

Norwood school enrollment ranges from 124 students (lowest) to 435 students (highest), a spread of 311 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

Norwood operates one school district — a single-district system

Norwood'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

Norwood student-teacher ratio is 19.3:1 — 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. Williams Avenue Elementary School 46
2. Norwood High School 43
3. Norwood View Elementary School 41
4. Sharpsburg Elementary 39
5. Norwood Middle School 35
6. The Norwood Montessori School -

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Norwood

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 Norwood View Elementary School 65.0/100
  2. 2 Sharpsburg Elementary 64.5/100
  3. 3 Norwood Middle School 62.9/100
  4. 4 Norwood High School 61.5/100
  5. 5 Williams Avenue Elementary School 48.3/100

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Which Norwood school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Williams Avenue Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Norwood schools in this federal-data comparison at 46/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Norwood, OH? ▼

Norwood has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,698 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 19.3:1.

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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.