NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools OH

Best-Resourced Schools in Willoughby, OH

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

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6
Schools
3,161
Students
47/100
Avg Resource Index
15.4:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Willoughby has more public-school enrollment than 31% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Willoughby's 6 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

3 of Willoughby'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 2 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Willoughby's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 78th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 21-point gap between Northern Career Institute and School of Innovation measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 69%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
78th percentile
Teacher staffing
49th percentile

South High School accounts for 31.5% of all Willoughby public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Willoughby-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

Willoughby school enrollment varies 6.7× across entities

Willoughby school enrollment ranges from 148 students (lowest) to 995 students (highest), a spread of 847 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

Willoughby operates one school district — a single-district system

Willoughby'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

Willoughby student-teacher ratio is 15.4:1 — 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 Willoughby is typically wider than the Willoughby-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Northern Career Institute 59
2. Grant Elementary School 50
3. Edison Elementary School 48
4. Willoughby Middle School 46
5. South High School 41
6. School of Innovation 38

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Willoughby

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 Edison Elementary School 62.4/100
  2. 2 Northern Career Institute 59.7/100
  3. 3 Grant Elementary School 57.7/100
  4. 4 Willoughby Middle School 57.6/100
  5. 5 South High School 52.4/100

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Which Willoughby school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Northern Career Institute has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Willoughby schools in this federal-data comparison at 59/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Willoughby, OH? ▼

Willoughby has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,161 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.4:1.

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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.