NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools TX

Best-Resourced Schools in Balch Springs, TX

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6 public K-12 schools in Balch Springs 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
3,378
Students
39.7/100
Avg Resource Index
14.4:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

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

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

5 of Balch Springs's 6 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

Economic need crosses separate district systems

87.4% of enrollment in reporting Balch Springs 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 18-point gap between Gray El and Kipp Pleasant Grove Leadership Academy 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 66%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
44th percentile
Teacher staffing
62nd percentile

Young Women's Steam Academy at Balch Springs Middl accounts for 22.2% of all Balch Springs public-school enrollment

That concentration means Balch Springs-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Middle. 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

Balch Springs reports 87.4% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share is at least 75%, indicating a high concentration of measured economic need. 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

Balch Springs student-teacher ratio is 14.4:1 — 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 Balch Springs is typically wider than the Balch Springs-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

1 of Balch Springs's 6 listed schools are charters

17% 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. Gray El 48
2. Young Women's Steam Academy at Balch Springs Middl 43
3. Hodges El 42
4. Floyd El 38
5. Mackey El 37
6. Kipp Pleasant Grove Leadership Academy 30

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Balch Springs

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 Mackey El 54.6/100
  2. 2 Kipp Pleasant Grove Leadership Academy 50.4/100
  3. 3 Gray El 42.1/100
  4. 4 Floyd El 33.4/100
  5. 5 Hodges El 28.6/100

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Which Balch Springs school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Gray El has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Balch Springs schools in this federal-data comparison at 48/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Balch Springs, TX? ▼

Balch Springs has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,378 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.4:1.

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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.