NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools TX

Best-Resourced Schools in Hereford, TX

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

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9
Schools
4,110
Students
43.3/100
Avg Resource Index
16.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Hereford has more public-school enrollment than 46% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Hereford 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

Hereford's list includes 4 elementary, 2 middle, and 1 high-school campus, plus 2 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 crosses separate district systems

81.4% of enrollment in reporting Hereford schools is eligible for free lunch, while the city list spans 2 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 30-point gap between Walcott El and Aikman El 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 54%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
62nd percentile
Teacher staffing
42nd percentile

Hereford H S accounts for 28.8% of all Hereford public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Hereford-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

Hereford school enrollment varies 8.1× across entities

Hereford school enrollment ranges from 146 students (lowest) to 1,182 students (highest), a spread of 1,036 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

Hereford reports 81.4% 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

Hereford student-teacher ratio is 16.1:1 — 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 Hereford is typically wider than the Hereford-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Walcott El 63
2. Hereford J H 52
3. Hereford H S 45
4. Hereford Preparatory Academy 42
5. West Central El 41
6. Bluebonnet El 40
7. Northwest El 39
8. Tierra Blanca Early Childhood Center 35
9. Aikman El 33

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Hereford

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 Walcott El 34.5/100
  2. 2 Hereford H S 18.4/100
  3. 3 Northwest El 18.4/100
  4. 4 Hereford Preparatory Academy 15.7/100
  5. 5 Hereford J H 13.7/100

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Which Hereford school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Walcott El has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Hereford schools in this federal-data comparison at 63/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Hereford, TX? ▼

Hereford has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,110 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.1:1.

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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.