NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools OR

Best-Resourced Schools in Astoria, OR

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6 public K-12 schools in Astoria 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
2,166
Students
40.8/100
Avg Resource Index
14.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Astoria has more public-school enrollment than 15% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Astoria sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

3 of Astoria'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.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 14-point gap between Knappa High School and Astoria Senior High School shows the range hidden by Astoria'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 85%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
49th percentile
Teacher staffing
61st percentile

Astoria Senior High School accounts for 27.4% of all Astoria public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Astoria-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

Astoria school enrollment varies 4.5× across entities

Astoria school enrollment ranges from 131 students (lowest) to 594 students (highest), a spread of 463 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

Astoria student-teacher ratio is 14.5:1 — 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 Astoria is typically wider than the Astoria-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Knappa High School 50
2. Lewis & Clark Elementary School 45
3. Astoria Middle School 40
4. Hilda Lahti Elementary School 38
5. Astoria Senior High School 36
6. Astor Elementary School 36

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Astoria

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 Astoria Senior High School 46.5/100
  2. 2 Astor Elementary School 45.1/100
  3. 3 Lewis & Clark Elementary School 41.9/100
  4. 4 Astoria Middle School 41.4/100
  5. 5 Hilda Lahti Elementary School 25.3/100

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Which Astoria school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Knappa High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Astoria schools in this federal-data comparison at 50/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Astoria, OR? ▼

Astoria has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,166 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.5:1.

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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.