NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools OH

Best-Resourced Schools in Salem, OH

Compiled from official source data by PlainSchools. · Updated August 2026

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

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Schools

2,287

Students

24/100

Avg Resource Index

21.2:1

Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Salem has more public-school enrollment than 17% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Salem'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.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

4 of Salem's 6 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.

Economic-need coverage is incomplete

Free-lunch eligibility is reported for schools covering 57.1% of Salem'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 83%
School count: Top 79%
Resource Index average: 3rd percentile
Teacher staffing: 11th percentile

Salem High School accounts for 26.7% of all Salem public-school enrollment

That concentration means Salem-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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Salem school enrollment varies 2.2× across entities

Salem school enrollment ranges from 276 students (lowest) to 610 students (highest), a spread of 334 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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Salem student-teacher ratio is 21.2:1 — 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 Accessed 2026-08-26

#	School	Score	Enrollment	Level	District
1.	West Branch Early Learning Center	34	374	elementary	West Branch Local
2.	Salem Junior High School	30	323	middle	Salem City
3.	Salem High School	25	610	high	Salem City
4.	Southeast Elementary School	25	276	elementary	Salem City
5.	Buckeye Elementary School	16	418	elementary	Salem City
6.	Reilly Elementary School	14	286	elementary	Salem City

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Salem

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.

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Which Salem school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

West Branch Early Learning Center has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Salem schools in this federal-data comparison at 34/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Salem, OH? ▼

Salem has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,287 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 21.2:1.

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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.