NCES CCD 2024-25 11 schools PA

Best-Resourced Schools in Doylestown, PA

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

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11
Schools
8,129
Students
57.1/100
Avg Resource Index
13.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Doylestown has more public-school enrollment than 74% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Doylestown 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

6 of Doylestown'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 0 middle and 2 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

Doylestown's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 97th 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 16-point gap between Cold Spring El Sch and Central Bucks Hs-West 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 26%
School count
Top 35%
Resource Index average
97th percentile
Teacher staffing
73rd percentile

Central Bucks Hs-West accounts for 17.1% of all Doylestown public-school enrollment

That concentration means Doylestown-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

Doylestown school enrollment varies 3.9× across entities

Doylestown school enrollment ranges from 353 students (lowest) to 1,391 students (highest), a spread of 1,038 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

Doylestown operates one school district — a single-district system

Doylestown'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

Doylestown student-teacher ratio is 13.5:1 — 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. Cold Spring El Sch 66
2. Lenape Ms 62
3. Groveland El Sch 60
4. Central Bucks Hs-East 59
5. Linden El Sch 58
6. Holicong Ms 57
7. Gayman El Sch 56
8. Kutz El Sch 55
9. Doyle El Sch 54
10. Tohickon Ms 51
11. Central Bucks Hs-West 50

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Doylestown

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 Groveland El Sch 46.1/100
  2. 2 Tohickon Ms 37.6/100
  3. 3 Holicong Ms 35.0/100
  4. 4 Lenape Ms 34.8/100
  5. 5 Cold Spring El Sch 34.2/100

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Which Doylestown school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Cold Spring El Sch has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Doylestown schools in this federal-data comparison at 66/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Doylestown, PA? ▼

Doylestown has 11 public schools with a total enrollment of 8,129 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.5:1.

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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.