NCES CCD 2024-25 11 schools TX

Best-Resourced Schools in Friendswood, TX

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

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11
Schools
11,835
Students
45.7/100
Avg Resource Index
15.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Friendswood has more public-school enrollment than 84% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Friendswood 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.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Friendswood's list includes 2 elementary, 3 middle, and 2 high-school campuses, plus 4 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

Economic-need coverage is incomplete

Free-lunch eligibility is reported for schools covering 50.6% of Friendswood's listed enrollment. Because the remaining enrollment is outside that calculation, the measured percentage should not be generalized to every local student. The Resource Investment Index uses other reported federal fields and has its own coverage limits. Treat the city figures as a map of available records: inspect a campus's source fields before using economic need or resource position in a comparison.

City enrollment
Top 16%
School count
Top 35%
Resource Index average
73rd percentile
Teacher staffing
48th percentile

Clear Brook H S accounts for 19.5% of all Friendswood public-school enrollment

That concentration means Friendswood-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

Friendswood school enrollment varies 4.6× across entities

Friendswood school enrollment ranges from 497 students (lowest) to 2,303 students (highest), a spread of 1,806 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

Friendswood student-teacher ratio is 15.5:1 — 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 Friendswood is typically wider than the Friendswood-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Brookside Int 54
2. Friendswood J H 49
3. Friendswood H S 48
4. Westbrook Int 48
5. Windsong Int 48
6. Clear Brook H S 45
7. Zue S Bales Int 45
8. Westwood El 45
9. C W Cline El 43
10. C D Landolt El 40
11. Wedgewood El 38

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Friendswood

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 Westbrook Int 73.0/100
  2. 2 Clear Brook H S 72.0/100
  3. 3 Brookside Int 70.8/100
  4. 4 Wedgewood El 64.4/100
  5. 5 C D Landolt El 57.6/100

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Which Friendswood school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Brookside Int has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Friendswood schools in this federal-data comparison at 54/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Friendswood, TX? ▼

Friendswood has 11 public schools with a total enrollment of 11,835 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.5:1.

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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.