NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools OH

Best-Resourced Schools in Oberlin, OH

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7 public K-12 schools in Oberlin 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
3,613
Students
43.6/100
Avg Resource Index
13.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Oberlin has more public-school enrollment than 38% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Oberlin 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.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

3 of Oberlin's 7 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.

Economic-need coverage is incomplete

Free-lunch eligibility is reported for schools covering 67.0% of Oberlin's listed enrollment. Because the remaining enrollment is outside that calculation, the measured percentage should not be generalized to every local student. The Resource Investment Index uses other reported federal fields and has its own coverage limits. Treat the city figures as a map of available records: inspect a campus's source fields before using economic need or resource position in a comparison.

City enrollment
Top 62%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
63rd percentile
Teacher staffing
76th percentile

William R Burton accounts for 33.0% of all Oberlin public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Oberlin-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Combined. 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

Oberlin school enrollment varies 6.5× across entities

Oberlin school enrollment ranges from 184 students (lowest) to 1,194 students (highest), a spread of 1,010 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

Oberlin student-teacher ratio is 13.3:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Langston Middle School 56
2. Oberlin High School 52
3. Firelands Middle School 45
4. Oberlin Elementary School 45
5. Firelands High School 40
6. Firelands Elementary School 38
7. William R Burton 29

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Oberlin

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 Langston Middle School 67.1/100
  2. 2 Oberlin Elementary School 67.0/100
  3. 3 Oberlin High School 65.4/100
  4. 4 William R Burton 40.8/100
  5. 5 Firelands Elementary School 20.2/100

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Which Oberlin school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Langston Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Oberlin schools in this federal-data comparison at 56/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Oberlin, OH? ▼

Oberlin has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,613 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.3:1.

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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.