NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools PA

Best-Resourced Schools in Palmyra, PA

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6 public K-12 schools in Palmyra 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
3,405
Students
55.2/100
Avg Resource Index
14.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Palmyra has more public-school enrollment than 34% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Palmyra'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 Palmyra'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

Palmyra's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 96th 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 Northside El Sch and Lingle Avenue 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 66%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
96th percentile
Teacher staffing
63rd percentile

Palmyra Area Shs accounts for 33.1% of all Palmyra public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Palmyra-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

Palmyra school enrollment varies 4.9× across entities

Palmyra school enrollment ranges from 229 students (lowest) to 1,126 students (highest), a spread of 897 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

Palmyra operates one school district — a single-district system

Palmyra'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

Palmyra student-teacher ratio is 14.3:1 — 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 Palmyra is typically wider than the Palmyra-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Northside El Sch 63
2. Forge Road El Sch 58
3. Palmyra Area Ms 57
4. Pine Street El Sch 55
5. Palmyra Area Shs 52
6. Lingle Avenue El Sch 46

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Palmyra

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 Northside El Sch 45.9/100
  2. 2 Lingle Avenue El Sch 44.4/100
  3. 3 Pine Street El Sch 41.3/100
  4. 4 Palmyra Area Ms 41.0/100
  5. 5 Forge Road El Sch 40.4/100

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Which Palmyra school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Northside El Sch has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Palmyra schools in this federal-data comparison at 63/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Palmyra, PA? ▼

Palmyra has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,405 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.3:1.

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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.