NCES CCD 2024-25 17 schools PA

Best-Resourced Schools in Scranton, PA

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

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17
Schools
9,561
Students
30.4/100
Avg Resource Index
13.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Scranton has more public-school enrollment than 79% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Scranton's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

12 of Scranton's 17 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.

Economic need crosses separate district systems

94.3% of enrollment in reporting Scranton schools is eligible for free lunch, while the city list spans 3 districts. That pairing makes a citywide average especially easy to misread: the need measure follows students, but staffing decisions, calendars, program rules, and federal allocations are administered through separate district structures. The 20-point gap between Northeast Intrmd Sch and Neil Armstrong #40 shows how much reported resource capacity can vary inside the same municipal label. Compare schools within the same district first, then use the city view to see how those local systems differ.

City enrollment
Top 21%
School count
Top 19%
Resource Index average
13th percentile
Teacher staffing
68th percentile

Scranton Hs accounts for 19.0% of all Scranton public-school enrollment

That concentration means Scranton-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

Scranton school enrollment varies 151× across entities

Scranton school enrollment ranges from 12 students (lowest) to 1,815 students (highest), a spread of 1,803 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. 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

Scranton reports 94.3% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share is above 87.5%, so economic need is widespread across the measured student population. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Scranton student-teacher ratio is 13.9:1 — 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. Northeast Intrmd Sch 41
2. Howard Gardner Multiple Intelligence Cs 41
3. West Scranton Hs 40
4. South Scranton Intrmd Sch 34
5. William Prescott #38 34
6. West Scranton Intrmd Sch 32
7. Robert Morris #27 32
8. Isaac Tripp El Sch 31
9. Scranton Hs 29
10. John F. Kennedy #7 28
11. John G Whittier #2 25
12. Mcnichols Plaza 25
13. John Adams #4 25
14. Frances Willard #32 24
15. Charles Sumner #18 24
16. Neil Armstrong #40 21
17. Ctc of Lackawanna County -

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Scranton

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 William Prescott #38 76.0/100
  2. 2 John Adams #4 75.4/100
  3. 3 Neil Armstrong #40 72.0/100
  4. 4 Scranton Hs 71.3/100
  5. 5 Frances Willard #32 71.1/100

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Which Scranton school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Northeast Intrmd Sch has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Scranton schools in this federal-data comparison at 41/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Scranton, PA? ▼

Scranton has 17 public schools with a total enrollment of 9,561 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.9:1.

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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.