NCES CCD 2024-25 11 schools OR

Best-Resourced Schools in Keizer, OR

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

11
Schools
6,214
Students
31/100
Avg Resource Index
19.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Keizer has more public-school enrollment than 65% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Keizer'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.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

8 of Keizer's 11 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 2 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

High measured need meets a thin staffing ratio

Keizer's reporting schools show 84.0% free-lunch eligibility across measured enrollment, alongside an average 19.5:1 student-teacher ratio. These are separate constraints: one describes the economic context of enrolled students and the other compares student and teacher headcounts. The 11-point gap between Clear Lake Elementary School and Mcnary High School is therefore more useful than the city mean alone. A school with a similar ratio may still report different counselor access, attendance, or gifted-program availability, so open the campus records before drawing conclusions about student support.

City enrollment
Top 35%
School count
Top 35%
Resource Index average
14th percentile
Teacher staffing
18th percentile

Mcnary High School accounts for 32.1% of all Keizer public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Keizer-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

Keizer school enrollment varies 15× across entities

Keizer school enrollment ranges from 129 students (lowest) to 1,995 students (highest), a spread of 1,866 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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

Keizer reports 84.0% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share is at least 75%, indicating a high concentration of measured economic need. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Keizer operates one school district — a single-district system

Keizer'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

Keizer student-teacher ratio is 19.5:1 — 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

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Keizer

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 Cummings Elementary School 62.7/100
  2. 2 Gubser Elementary School 61.3/100
  3. 3 Whiteaker Middle School 60.9/100
  4. 4 Mcnary High School 60.5/100
  5. 5 Claggett Creek Middle School 60.3/100

What do families ask about schools in Keizer?

Which Keizer school has the highest Resource Investment Index?

Clear Lake Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Keizer schools in this federal-data comparison at 37/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Keizer, OR?

Keizer has 11 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,214 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 19.5:1.

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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.