NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools PA

Best-Resourced Schools in Aston, PA

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6 public K-12 schools in Aston 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
2,980
Students
61.7/100
Avg Resource Index
11.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Aston has more public-school enrollment than 28% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Aston lands in the upper national tier on both the average Resource Investment Index and teacher staffing intensity. Those measures come from different inputs: the index combines reported counselors, gifted access, attendance, and staffing, while the staffing percentile compares the city's student-teacher ratio directly. Agreement across both measures is stronger evidence of broad reported capacity than either score alone, though neither is a test-score rating or a guarantee about an individual classroom.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

3 of Aston'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.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Aston lists only 6 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 80 to 1,042 students, a 13-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 72%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
99th percentile
Teacher staffing
90th percentile

Sun Valley Hs accounts for 35.0% of all Aston public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Aston-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

Aston school enrollment varies 13× across entities

Aston school enrollment ranges from 80 students (lowest) to 1,042 students (highest), a spread of 962 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

Aston student-teacher ratio is 11.7:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Delaware County Technical High School-As 82
2. Northley Ms 61
3. Sun Valley Hs 60
4. Aston El Sch 56
5. Hilltop El Sch 56
6. Pennell El Sch 55

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Aston

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 Hilltop El Sch 65.5/100
  2. 2 Delaware County Technical High School-As 63.7/100
  3. 3 Sun Valley Hs 38.0/100
  4. 4 Northley Ms 37.0/100
  5. 5 Aston El Sch 31.0/100

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Which Aston school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Delaware County Technical High School-As has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Aston schools in this federal-data comparison at 82/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Aston, PA? ▼

Aston has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,980 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.7:1.

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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.