NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools PA

Best-Resourced Schools in Nazareth, PA

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

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7
Schools
5,318
Students
41.7/100
Avg Resource Index
14.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Nazareth has more public-school enrollment than 58% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Nazareth 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 Nazareth's 7 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.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 15-point gap between Nazareth Area Hs and Plainfield El Sch shows the range hidden by Nazareth'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 42%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
54th percentile
Teacher staffing
61st percentile

Nazareth Area Hs accounts for 30.2% of all Nazareth public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Nazareth-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

Nazareth school enrollment varies 3.7× across entities

Nazareth school enrollment ranges from 434 students (lowest) to 1,607 students (highest), a spread of 1,173 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

Nazareth student-teacher ratio is 14.5:1 — 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 Nazareth is typically wider than the Nazareth-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Nazareth Area Hs 51
2. Nazareth Area Ms 43
3. Shafer El Sch 42
4. Nazareth Area Intermediate Sch 41
5. Kenneth N Butz Jr El Sch 40
6. Lower Nazareth El Sch 39
7. Plainfield El Sch 36

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Nazareth

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 Lower Nazareth El Sch 46.0/100
  2. 2 Nazareth Area Ms 43.2/100
  3. 3 Shafer El Sch 42.7/100
  4. 4 Nazareth Area Intermediate Sch 42.1/100
  5. 5 Nazareth Area Hs 36.9/100

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Which Nazareth school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Nazareth Area Hs has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Nazareth schools in this federal-data comparison at 51/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Nazareth, PA? ▼

Nazareth has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,318 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.5:1.

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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.