NCES CCD 2024-25 16 schools OH

Best-Resourced Schools in Painesville, OH

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

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16
Schools
6,737
Students
31.5/100
Avg Resource Index
20:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Painesville has more public-school enrollment than 68% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Painesville's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Painesville's list includes 7 elementary, 2 middle, and 2 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.

Economic-need coverage is incomplete

Free-lunch eligibility is reported for schools covering 47.7% of Painesville'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 32%
School count
Top 21%
Resource Index average
16th percentile
Teacher staffing
16th percentile

Riverside Jr/Sr High School accounts for 23.4% of all Painesville public-school enrollment

That concentration means Painesville-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

Painesville school enrollment varies 1578× across entities

Painesville school enrollment ranges from 1 students (lowest) to 1,578 students (highest), a spread of 1,577 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

Painesville student-teacher ratio is 20.0:1 — 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. Summit Academy Community School - Painesville 48
2. Henry F Lamuth Middle School 41
3. Heritage Middle School 37
4. Buckeye Elementary School 36
5. Melridge Elementary School 36
6. Chestnut Elementary School 35
7. Riverview Elementary School 34
8. Istem Geauga Early College High School 34
9. Harvey High School 33
10. Elm Street Elementary School 30
11. Harvey Academy 30
12. Riverside Jr/Sr High School 29
13. Maple Elementary School 27
14. Red Raider Preschool 21
15. Riverside Preschool 18
16. Riverside Virtual Academy 15

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Painesville

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 Maple Elementary School 62.4/100
  2. 2 Chestnut Elementary School 60.8/100
  3. 3 Elm Street Elementary School 58.2/100
  4. 4 Harvey High School 57.6/100
  5. 5 Heritage Middle School 57.5/100

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Which Painesville school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Summit Academy Community School - Painesville has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Painesville schools in this federal-data comparison at 48/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Painesville, OH? ▼

Painesville has 16 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,737 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 20:1.

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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.