NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools PA

Best-Resourced Schools in Dover, PA

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6 public K-12 schools in Dover 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
3,149
Students
50.3/100
Avg Resource Index
14:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Dover has more public-school enrollment than 31% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Dover's 6 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

4 of Dover'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 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Dover's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 88th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 17-point gap between North Salem El Sch and Weigelstown El Sch measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 69%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
88th percentile
Teacher staffing
67th percentile

Dover Area Hs accounts for 31.1% of all Dover public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Dover-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

Dover school enrollment varies 3.0× across entities

Dover school enrollment ranges from 323 students (lowest) to 979 students (highest), a spread of 656 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

Dover operates one school district — a single-district system

Dover'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

Dover 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 Dover is typically wider than the Dover-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. North Salem El Sch 58
2. Leib El Sch 57
3. Dover Area El Sch 53
4. Dover Area Ms 48
5. Dover Area Hs 45
6. Weigelstown El Sch 41

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Dover

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 Weigelstown El Sch 56.3/100
  2. 2 Leib El Sch 45.5/100
  3. 3 Dover Area Hs 45.1/100
  4. 4 Dover Area Ms 41.1/100
  5. 5 Dover Area El Sch 40.8/100

What do families ask about schools in Dover?

Which Dover school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

North Salem El Sch has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Dover schools in this federal-data comparison at 58/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Dover, PA? ▼

Dover has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,149 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.