NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools PA

Best-Resourced Schools in Phoenixville, PA

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

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8
Schools
5,244
Students
54.9/100
Avg Resource Index
11.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Phoenixville has more public-school enrollment than 57% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Phoenixville 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

4 of Phoenixville's 8 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 2 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Phoenixville lists only 8 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 79 to 1,199 students, a 15-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 43%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
95th percentile
Teacher staffing
93rd percentile

Renaissance Academy Cs accounts for 22.9% of all Phoenixville public-school enrollment

That concentration means Phoenixville-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Combined. 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

Phoenixville school enrollment varies 15× across entities

Phoenixville school enrollment ranges from 79 students (lowest) to 1,199 students (highest), a spread of 1,120 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

Phoenixville student-teacher ratio is 11.2:1 — 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 Phoenixville's 8 listed schools are charters

13% 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. Chester Co Technical College Hs-Pickerin 67
2. Barkley El Sch 61
3. Manavon El Sch 58
4. Schuylkill El Sch 55
5. Phoenixville Area Ms 53
6. Phoenixville Early Learning Ctr 50
7. Renaissance Academy Cs 49
8. Phoenixville Area Hs 46

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Phoenixville

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 Renaissance Academy Cs 73.9/100
  2. 2 Barkley El Sch 59.0/100
  3. 3 Phoenixville Area Ms 54.6/100
  4. 4 Phoenixville Early Learning Ctr 53.4/100
  5. 5 Phoenixville Area Hs 51.2/100

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Which Phoenixville school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Chester Co Technical College Hs-Pickerin has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Phoenixville schools in this federal-data comparison at 67/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Phoenixville, PA? ▼

Phoenixville has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,244 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.2:1.

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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.