NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools TX

Best-Resourced Schools in Monahans, TX

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

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6
Schools
2,181
Students
47.3/100
Avg Resource Index
14.4:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Monahans has more public-school enrollment than 15% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Monahans's 6 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Monahans's list includes 2 elementary, 1 middle, and 2 high-school campuses, plus 1 combined-grade record. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Monahans lists only 6 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 8 to 646 students, a 81-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 85%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
79th percentile
Teacher staffing
62nd percentile

Parkway El accounts for 29.6% of all Monahans public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Monahans-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Elementary. 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

Monahans school enrollment varies 81× across entities

Monahans school enrollment ranges from 8 students (lowest) to 646 students (highest), a spread of 638 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

Monahans operates one school district — a single-district system

Monahans'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

Monahans student-teacher ratio is 14.4:1 — 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 Monahans is typically wider than the Monahans-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Monahans Ed Ctr 69
2. Monahans H S 51
3. Tatom El 46
4. Walker J H 42
5. Parkway El 40
6. George Cullender Kind 36

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Monahans

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 Parkway El 48.9/100
  2. 2 Walker J H 48.5/100
  3. 3 Monahans H S 48.3/100
  4. 4 Tatom El 42.9/100
  5. 5 Monahans Ed Ctr 37.5/100

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Which Monahans school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Monahans Ed Ctr has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Monahans schools in this federal-data comparison at 69/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Monahans, TX? ▼

Monahans has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,181 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.4:1.

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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.