NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools TX

Best-Resourced Schools in New Caney, TX

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

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9
Schools
7,945
Students
39.1/100
Avg Resource Index
16.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, New Caney has more public-school enrollment than 73% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. New Caney 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

8 of New Caney's 9 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.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

New Caney lists only 9 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 26 to 2,226 students, a 86-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 27%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
42nd percentile
Teacher staffing
42nd percentile

New Caney H S accounts for 28.0% of all New Caney public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means New Caney-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Combined. 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

New Caney school enrollment varies 86× across entities

New Caney school enrollment ranges from 26 students (lowest) to 2,226 students (highest), a spread of 2,200 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

New Caney reports 73.7% 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

New Caney student-teacher ratio is 16.1:1 — 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 New Caney is typically wider than the New Caney-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. The Learning Ctr 61
2. Keefer Crossing Middle 47
3. Dogwood El 40
4. Timber Lakes El 39
5. Tavola El 36
6. Oakley El 35
7. New Caney El 35
8. Project Restore 30
9. New Caney H S 29

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in New Caney

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 Tavola El 66.0/100
  2. 2 Timber Lakes El 64.2/100
  3. 3 The Learning Ctr 56.8/100
  4. 4 Keefer Crossing Middle 50.6/100
  5. 5 New Caney H S 48.8/100

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Which New Caney school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

The Learning Ctr has the highest Resource Investment Index among the New Caney schools in this federal-data comparison at 61/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in New Caney, TX? ▼

New Caney has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 7,945 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.1:1.

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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.