NCES CCD 2024-25 13 schools TX

Best-Resourced Schools in Nacogdoches, TX

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

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13
Schools
7,005
Students
45.7/100
Avg Resource Index
12.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Nacogdoches has more public-school enrollment than 69% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Nacogdoches 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

Nacogdoches's list includes 5 elementary, 2 middle, and 3 high-school campuses, plus 3 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.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 51-point gap between Margie Chumbley Academy for Success and Mike Moses El shows the range hidden by Nacogdoches'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 31%
School count
Top 28%
Resource Index average
73rd percentile
Teacher staffing
81st percentile

Nacogdoches H S accounts for 25.1% of all Nacogdoches public-school enrollment

That concentration means Nacogdoches-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

Nacogdoches school enrollment varies 26× across entities

Nacogdoches school enrollment ranges from 67 students (lowest) to 1,755 students (highest), a spread of 1,688 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. 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

Nacogdoches reports 68.5% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. 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

Nacogdoches student-teacher ratio is 12.8:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Margie Chumbley Academy for Success 79
2. Central Heights Middle 58
3. Nettie Marshall Early Childhood Center 54
4. Central Heights H S 53
5. Thomas J Rusk El 48
6. Central Heights El 47
7. Nacogdoches H S 42
8. Mcmichael Middle 41
9. Stephen F Austin State University Charter School 41
10. Raguet El 40
11. Emeline Carpenter El 33
12. Brooks-Quinn-Jones El 30
13. Mike Moses El 28

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Nacogdoches

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 Raguet El 72.4/100
  2. 2 Nacogdoches H S 65.7/100
  3. 3 Mcmichael Middle 64.3/100
  4. 4 Margie Chumbley Academy for Success 61.7/100
  5. 5 Brooks-Quinn-Jones El 59.5/100

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Which Nacogdoches school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Margie Chumbley Academy for Success has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Nacogdoches schools in this federal-data comparison at 79/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Nacogdoches, TX? ▼

Nacogdoches has 13 public schools with a total enrollment of 7,005 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.8:1.

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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.