NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools OR

Best-Resourced Schools in Ashland, OR

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7 public K-12 schools in Ashland 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
2,321
Students
47/100
Avg Resource Index
14:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Ashland has more public-school enrollment than 17% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Ashland High School enrolls 37.8% of Ashland'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.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

5 of Ashland'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.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Ashland lists only 7 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 8 to 877 students, a 110-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 83%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
78th percentile
Teacher staffing
67th percentile

Ashland High School accounts for 37.8% of all Ashland public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Ashland-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

Ashland school enrollment varies 110× across entities

Ashland school enrollment ranges from 8 students (lowest) to 877 students (highest), a spread of 869 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. 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

Ashland student-teacher ratio is 14.0:1 — 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 Ashland is typically wider than the Ashland-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Pinehurst Elementary School 51
2. Helman Elementary School 50
3. Walker Elementary School 50
4. Bellview Elementary School 46
5. Ashland High School 45
6. Trails Outdoor School 44
7. Ashland Middle School 43

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Ashland

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 Walker Elementary School 50.7/100
  2. 2 Ashland Middle School 48.1/100
  3. 3 Ashland High School 42.3/100
  4. 4 Helman Elementary School 40.9/100
  5. 5 Bellview Elementary School 39.1/100

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Which Ashland school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Pinehurst Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Ashland schools in this federal-data comparison at 51/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Ashland, OR? ▼

Ashland has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,321 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14:1.

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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.