17 public K-12 schools in Zanesville from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Zanesville has more public-school enrollment than 73% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Zanesville'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.
Zanesville's list includes 4 elementary, 2 middle, and 5 high-school campuses, plus 6 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.
Free-lunch eligibility is reported for schools covering 32.3% of Zanesville'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.
Zanesville school enrollment ranges from 104 students (lowest) to 915 students (highest), a spread of 811 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
Each school district has independent budgeting, hiring, and service delivery authority. The fragmentation reflects historical patterns of inter-municipal boundary lines that pre-date modern city growth, students in different parts of the same city can attend different districts with different per-pupil spending, calendars, and graduation requirements. Per-region variation is largest in fragmented systems because each school district sets its own budget, contracts, and priorities without higher-level coordination above the regulatory floor.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
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.
18% 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. | West Muskingum Elementary School | 42 |
| 2. | John Mcintire Elementary School | 42 |
| 3. | Maysville High School | 36 |
| 4. | West Muskingum High School | 36 |
| 5. | Perry Elementary School | 36 |
| 6. | Zanesville Campus | 35 |
| 7. | National Road | 34 |
| 8. | Maysville Elementary School | 31 |
| 9. | Zanesville High School | 30 |
| 10. | West Muskingum Middle School | 28 |
| 11. | Zane Grey Elementary School | 27 |
| 12. | Zanesville Middle School | 26 |
| 13. | Maysville Middle School | 26 |
| 14. | Foxfire Intermediate School | 20 |
| 15. | Zanesville Community School | 15 |
| 16. | Maysville O Tags | 15 |
| 17. | Foxfire High School | 10 |
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.
West Muskingum Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Zanesville schools in this federal-data comparison at 42/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Zanesville has 17 public schools with a total enrollment of 7,907 students. 3 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 21.8:1.
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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.
