NCES CCD 2024-25 16 schools TX

Best-Resourced Schools in Rockwall, TX

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

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16
Schools
12,379
Students
41/100
Avg Resource Index
16.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Rockwall has more public-school enrollment than 85% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Rockwall 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

12 of Rockwall's 16 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 15-point gap between Rockwall Quest Academy and Maurine Cain Middle shows the range hidden by Rockwall'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 15%
School count
Top 21%
Resource Index average
50th percentile
Teacher staffing
35th percentile

Rockwall H S accounts for 23.8% of all Rockwall public-school enrollment

That concentration means Rockwall-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

Rockwall school enrollment varies 48× across entities

Rockwall school enrollment ranges from 61 students (lowest) to 2,949 students (highest), a spread of 2,888 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

Rockwall operates one school district — a single-district system

Rockwall'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

Rockwall student-teacher ratio is 16.8:1 — 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 Rockwall is typically wider than the Rockwall-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Rockwall Quest Academy 48
2. Nebbie Williams El 47
3. Sherry and Paul Hamm El 43
4. Celia Hays El 43
5. J W Williams Middle 42
6. Virginia Reinhardt El 41
7. Dorothy Smith Pullen El 41
8. Ouida Springer 41
9. Grace Hartman El 41
10. Sharon Shannon El 40
11. Dorris a Jones El 40
12. Howard Dobbs El 40
13. Rockwall H S 39
14. Herman E Utley Middle 39
15. Amanda Rochell El 38
16. Maurine Cain Middle 33

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Rockwall

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 Amanda Rochell El 71.0/100
  2. 2 Rockwall Quest Academy 67.3/100
  3. 3 Herman E Utley Middle 66.1/100
  4. 4 Ouida Springer 65.0/100
  5. 5 Sharon Shannon El 63.6/100

What do families ask about schools in Rockwall?

Which Rockwall school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Rockwall Quest Academy has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Rockwall schools in this federal-data comparison at 48/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Rockwall, TX? ▼

Rockwall has 16 public schools with a total enrollment of 12,379 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.8:1.

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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.