NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools PA

Best-Resourced Schools in Fairless Hills, PA

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

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5
Schools
5,500
Students
51.2/100
Avg Resource Index
12.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Fairless Hills has more public-school enrollment than 60% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Pennsbury Hs enrolls 51.8% of Fairless Hills's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

Secondary campuses occupy an unusually large share

2 of the 5 listed Fairless Hills schools are classified as high schools, a substantial share of the local portfolio. Advanced-course access, counseling, and graduation-stage staffing therefore have more weight in the city Resource Index average than they do in an elementary-heavy system.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Fairless Hills lists only 5 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 180 to 2,847 students, a 16-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 40%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
89th percentile
Teacher staffing
82nd percentile

Pennsbury Hs accounts for 51.8% of all Fairless Hills public-school enrollment

That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Fairless Hills a distant remainder — means Fairless Hills-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. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Fairless Hills school enrollment varies 16× across entities

Fairless Hills school enrollment ranges from 180 students (lowest) to 2,847 students (highest), a spread of 2,667 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

Fairless Hills student-teacher ratio is 12.7:1 — 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

1 of Fairless Hills's 5 listed schools are charters

20% of the city's listed public-school campuses are reported as charter schools in NCES CCD. Charter status identifies a different governance arrangement; it does not establish admissions availability, academic quality, or the share of city students enrolled in those campuses. Open each school record to compare enrollment and staffing directly.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

# School Score
1. Bucks County Montessori Cs 56
2. Pennsbury Hs 55
3. Oxford Valley El Sch 52
4. Neil a Armstrong Ms 49
5. Bucks County Technical High School 44

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Fairless Hills

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 Neil a Armstrong Ms 65.7/100
  2. 2 Bucks County Montessori Cs 62.6/100
  3. 3 Oxford Valley El Sch 49.8/100
  4. 4 Pennsbury Hs 46.8/100
  5. 5 Bucks County Technical High School 43.9/100

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Which Fairless Hills school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Bucks County Montessori Cs has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Fairless Hills schools in this federal-data comparison at 56/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Fairless Hills, PA? ▼

Fairless Hills has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,500 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.7:1.

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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.