NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools OH

Best-Resourced Schools in Vandalia, OH

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

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5
Schools
2,339
Students
42/100
Avg Resource Index
19.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Vandalia has more public-school enrollment than 18% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Butler High School enrolls 36.6% of Vandalia's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Vandalia's list includes 2 elementary, 1 middle, and 1 high-school campus, plus 1 combined-grade record. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Vandalia's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 55th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 16th percentile. The 39-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 82%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
55th percentile
Teacher staffing
16th percentile

Butler High School accounts for 36.6% of all Vandalia public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Vandalia-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

Vandalia school enrollment varies 8.5× across entities

Vandalia school enrollment ranges from 101 students (lowest) to 856 students (highest), a spread of 755 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

Vandalia operates one school district — a single-district system

Vandalia'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

Vandalia student-teacher ratio is 19.8:1 — 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. Helke Elementary School 54
2. Demmitt Elementary School 53
3. Butler High School 47
4. Morton Middle School 41
5. Vandalia-Butler Preschool 15

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Vandalia

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 Demmitt Elementary School 50.4/100
  2. 2 Helke Elementary School 47.4/100
  3. 3 Morton Middle School 44.9/100
  4. 4 Butler High School 43.0/100

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Which Vandalia school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Helke Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Vandalia schools in this federal-data comparison at 54/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Vandalia, OH? ▼

Vandalia has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,339 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 19.8:1.

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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.