22 public K-12 schools in Klein from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Klein has more public-school enrollment than 94% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Klein 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.
13 of Klein's 22 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.
The 47-point gap between K E Kaufman Alternative Education Center and Harris Co Jjaep shows the range hidden by Klein's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.
That concentration means Klein-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
Klein school enrollment ranges from 24 students (lowest) to 3,922 students (highest), a spread of 3,898 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
Klein'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
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 Klein is typically wider than the Klein-aggregate figure suggests.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | K E Kaufman Alternative Education Center | 77 |
| 2. | Mittelstadt El | 53 |
| 3. | Klein H S | 52 |
| 4. | Doerre Int | 48 |
| 5. | Hassler El | 48 |
| 6. | Kuehnle El | 46 |
| 7. | Brill El | 46 |
| 8. | Ulrich Int | 45 |
| 9. | Mueller El | 45 |
| 10. | Klein Cain H S | 44 |
| 11. | Frank El | 44 |
| 12. | Theiss El | 44 |
| 13. | Benignus El | 43 |
| 14. | Hofius Int | 42 |
| 15. | Kleb Int | 42 |
| 16. | Benfer El | 42 |
| 17. | Krimmel Intermed | 41 |
| 18. | Fox El | 40 |
| 19. | Krahn El | 39 |
| 20. | Strack Int | 38 |
| 21. | Ehrhardt El | 38 |
| 22. | Harris Co Jjaep | 30 |
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.
K E Kaufman Alternative Education Center has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Klein schools in this federal-data comparison at 77/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Klein has 22 public schools with a total enrollment of 23,132 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.2:1.
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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.
