23 public K-12 schools in Missouri City 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, Missouri City has more public-school enrollment than 94% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Missouri City 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.
14 of Missouri City'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.
The 17-point gap between Hunters Glen El and Ronald Thornton Middle shows the range hidden by Missouri City'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.
Missouri City school enrollment ranges from 218 students (lowest) to 2,848 students (highest), a spread of 2,630 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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
Missouri City'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 Missouri City is typically wider than the Missouri City-aggregate figure suggests.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Hunters Glen El | 55 |
| 2. | Donald Leonetti El | 51 |
| 3. | Quail Valley Middle | 49 |
| 4. | Hunters Glen Early Literacy Center | 48 |
| 5. | Sienna Crossing El | 46 |
| 6. | Missouri City Middle | 46 |
| 7. | Scanlan Oaks El | 45 |
| 8. | Lexington Creek El | 45 |
| 9. | Ridge Point H S | 44 |
| 10. | Quail Valley El | 44 |
| 11. | Lake Olympia Middle | 43 |
| 12. | Palmer El | 43 |
| 13. | Hightower H S | 42 |
| 14. | Billy Baines Middle | 42 |
| 15. | Thurgood Marshall H S | 41 |
| 16. | Lantern Lane El | 41 |
| 17. | Briargate El | 41 |
| 18. | Jan Schiff El | 40 |
| 19. | Lawrence E Elkins H S | 39 |
| 20. | Edgar Glover Jr El | 39 |
| 21. | Ronald Thornton Middle | 38 |
| 22. | E a Jones El | 38 |
| 23. | Dr Lynn Armstrong El | 38 |
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.
Hunters Glen El has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Missouri City schools in this federal-data comparison at 55/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Missouri City has 23 public schools with a total enrollment of 23,810 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.1:1.
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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.
