NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools PA

Best-Resourced Schools in Bloomsburg, PA

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

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9
Schools
3,994
Students
46.3/100
Avg Resource Index
13.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Bloomsburg has more public-school enrollment than 44% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Bloomsburg 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

5 of Bloomsburg's 9 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 3 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 Bloomsburg Area Ms and Memorial El Sch shows the range hidden by Bloomsburg'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 56%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
75th percentile
Teacher staffing
71st percentile

Central Columbia El Sch accounts for 17.7% of all Bloomsburg public-school enrollment

That concentration means Bloomsburg-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Elementary. 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

Bloomsburg school enrollment varies 7.4× across entities

Bloomsburg school enrollment ranges from 95 students (lowest) to 705 students (highest), a spread of 610 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

Bloomsburg student-teacher ratio is 13.7:1 — 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. Bloomsburg Area Ms 52
2. Central Columbia El Sch 51
3. Central Columbia Shs 51
4. Central Columbia Ms 50
5. Bloomsburg Area Hs 48
6. W W Evans Memorial El Sch 45
7. Beaver-Main El Sch 42
8. Columbia-Montour Avts 40
9. Memorial El Sch 38

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Bloomsburg

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 Memorial El Sch 42.3/100
  2. 2 Bloomsburg Area Hs 34.7/100
  3. 3 Bloomsburg Area Ms 33.7/100
  4. 4 Central Columbia Ms 23.1/100
  5. 5 Columbia-Montour Avts 21.2/100

What do families ask about schools in Bloomsburg?

Which Bloomsburg school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Bloomsburg Area Ms has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Bloomsburg schools in this federal-data comparison at 52/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Bloomsburg, PA? ▼

Bloomsburg has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,994 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.7:1.

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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.