NCES CCD 2024-25 10 schools OH

Best-Resourced Schools in Sandusky, OH

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

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10
Schools
5,177
Students
38.2/100
Avg Resource Index
16.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Sandusky has more public-school enrollment than 57% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Sandusky 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

5 of Sandusky's 10 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 36.1% of Sandusky'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 43%
School count
Top 41%
Resource Index average
38th percentile
Teacher staffing
34th percentile

Sandusky High School accounts for 19.9% of all Sandusky public-school enrollment

That concentration means Sandusky-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

Sandusky school enrollment varies 5.0× across entities

Sandusky school enrollment ranges from 204 students (lowest) to 1,028 students (highest), a spread of 824 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

Sandusky student-teacher ratio is 16.9:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

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 Variation between sub-units within Sandusky is typically wider than the Sandusky-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

1 of Sandusky's 10 listed schools are charters

10% of the city's listed public-school campuses are reported as charter schools in NCES CCD. Charter status identifies a different governance arrangement; it does not establish admissions availability, academic quality, or the share of city students enrolled in those campuses. Open each school record to compare enrollment and staffing directly.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

# School Score
1. Perkins High School 50
2. Meadowlawn Elementary School 49
3. Briar Middle School 46
4. The Sandusky Primary School 44
5. Furry Elementary School 42
6. The Sandusky Intermediate School 39
7. Sandusky Middle School 31
8. The Early Learning Academy 30
9. Sandusky High School 26
10. Monroe Preparatory Academy 25

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Sandusky

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 Monroe Preparatory Academy 72.0/100
  2. 2 The Sandusky Intermediate School 70.7/100
  3. 3 The Sandusky Primary School 70.2/100
  4. 4 Sandusky Middle School 69.8/100
  5. 5 Sandusky High School 69.6/100

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Which Sandusky school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Perkins High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Sandusky schools in this federal-data comparison at 50/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Sandusky, OH? ▼

Sandusky has 10 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,177 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.9:1.

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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.