NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools OH

Best-Resourced Schools in Sunbury, OH

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7 public K-12 schools in Sunbury 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
4,009
Students
37.3/100
Avg Resource Index
19.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Sunbury has more public-school enrollment than 44% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Sunbury's 7 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.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

4 of Sunbury's 7 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.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 27-point gap between General Rosecrans Elementary and Big Walnut Early Learning Center at Harrison Street shows the range hidden by Sunbury'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 56%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
34th percentile
Teacher staffing
18th percentile

Big Walnut High School accounts for 32.4% of all Sunbury public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Sunbury-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

Sunbury school enrollment varies 9.9× across entities

Sunbury school enrollment ranges from 131 students (lowest) to 1,299 students (highest), a spread of 1,168 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

Sunbury operates one school district — a single-district system

Sunbury'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

Sunbury student-teacher ratio is 19.5:1 — 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. General Rosecrans Elementary 48
2. Big Walnut Elementary School 46
3. Prairie Run Elementary School 45
4. Big Walnut Intermediate School 38
5. Big Walnut Middle School 37
6. Big Walnut High School 26
7. Big Walnut Early Learning Center at Harrison Street 21

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Sunbury

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 Big Walnut Elementary School 33.4/100
  2. 2 Big Walnut Early Learning Center at Harrison Street 30.0/100
  3. 3 Big Walnut Middle School 25.9/100
  4. 4 General Rosecrans Elementary 25.3/100
  5. 5 Big Walnut Intermediate School 23.4/100

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Which Sunbury school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

General Rosecrans Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Sunbury 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 Sunbury, OH? ▼

Sunbury has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,009 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 19.5:1.

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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.