NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools RI

Best-Resourced Schools in Westerly, RI

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6 public K-12 schools in Westerly 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
2,095
Students
39.8/100
Avg Resource Index
10.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Westerly has more public-school enrollment than 14% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Westerly'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 Westerly'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 0 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Westerly's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 45th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 95th percentile. The 50-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 86%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
45th percentile
Teacher staffing
95th percentile

Westerly High School accounts for 31.0% of all Westerly public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Westerly-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

Westerly school enrollment varies 7.5× across entities

Westerly school enrollment ranges from 87 students (lowest) to 650 students (highest), a spread of 563 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

Westerly operates one school district — a single-district system

Westerly'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

Westerly student-teacher ratio is 10.9:1 — 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. Westerly Inclusion Preschool P 57
2. Dunn's Corners School 49
3. State Street School 40
4. Westerly High School 34
5. Westerly Middle School 30
6. Springbrook Elementary School 29

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Westerly

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 Westerly Inclusion Preschool P 52.7/100
  2. 2 Springbrook Elementary School 47.2/100
  3. 3 Westerly Middle School 39.3/100
  4. 4 State Street School 38.2/100
  5. 5 Westerly High School 37.3/100

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Which Westerly school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Westerly Inclusion Preschool P has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Westerly schools in this federal-data comparison at 57/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Westerly, RI? ▼

Westerly has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,095 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 10.9:1.

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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.