NCES CCD 2024-25 23 schools TX

Best-Resourced Schools in Leander, TX

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

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23
Schools
20,162
Students
40.7/100
Avg Resource Index
14.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Leander has more public-school enrollment than 93% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Leander 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

13 of Leander's 23 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.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 81-point gap between Leander Extended Opportunity and Early College H S shows the range hidden by Leander'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.

City enrollment
Top 7%
School count
Top 12%
Resource Index average
49th percentile
Teacher staffing
60th percentile

Leander school enrollment varies 35× across entities

Leander school enrollment ranges from 65 students (lowest) to 2,260 students (highest), a spread of 2,195 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme heterogeneity inside a single city, with small specialty programs listed alongside large comprehensive campuses. 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

Leander student-teacher ratio is 14.6:1 — 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 Leander is typically wider than the Leander-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Leander Extended Opportunity 81
2. Leander Virtual Learning Academy 66
3. New Hope H S 53
4. Bagdad El 46
5. Florence W Stiles Middle 45
6. Tarvin El 45
7. Leander Middle 44
8. William J Winkley El 43
9. Founders Classical Academy of Leander 43
10. Monta Jane Akin El 41
11. Larkspur El 41
12. Stacy Kaye Danielson Middle 40
13. Knox Wiley Middle 40
14. Block House Creek El 40
15. Whitestone El 39
16. Pleasant Hill El 39
17. Leander H S 38
18. Jim Plain El 38
19. Christine Camacho El 37
20. Rouse H S 35
21. Glenn H S 31
22. North El 11
23. Early College H S -

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Leander

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 Pleasant Hill El 71.5/100
  2. 2 Larkspur El 71.1/100
  3. 3 Stacy Kaye Danielson Middle 71.0/100
  4. 4 Knox Wiley Middle 70.8/100
  5. 5 Jim Plain El 70.8/100

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Which Leander school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Leander Extended Opportunity has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Leander schools in this federal-data comparison at 81/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Leander, TX? ▼

Leander has 23 public schools with a total enrollment of 20,162 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.6:1.

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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.