NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools TX

Best-Resourced Schools in Santa Fe, TX

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9 public K-12 schools in Santa Fe 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
4,321
Students
36.9/100
Avg Resource Index
13.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Santa Fe has more public-school enrollment than 48% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Santa Fe 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

6 of Santa Fe'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

Santa Fe lists only 9 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 1 to 1,314 students, a 1314-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 52%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
33rd percentile
Teacher staffing
69th percentile

Santa Fe H S accounts for 30.4% of all Santa Fe public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Santa Fe-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

Santa Fe school enrollment varies 1314× across entities

Santa Fe school enrollment ranges from 1 students (lowest) to 1,314 students (highest), a spread of 1,313 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

Santa Fe student-teacher ratio is 13.8:1 — 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. Coastal Alternative Program (Cap) 61
2. Santa Fe H S 50
3. Dan J Kubacak El 40
4. Roy J Wollam El 40
5. William F Barnett El 39
6. Santa Fe J H 35
7. Coastal Alternative Program (Cap) 30
8. Coastal Alternative Program -
9. Galveston Co J J a E P -

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Santa Fe

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 Coastal Alternative Program (Cap) 69.3/100
  2. 2 William F Barnett El 50.4/100
  3. 3 Roy J Wollam El 49.2/100
  4. 4 Santa Fe J H 47.1/100
  5. 5 Santa Fe H S 46.4/100

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Which Santa Fe school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Coastal Alternative Program (Cap) has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Santa Fe 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 Santa Fe, TX? ▼

Santa Fe has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,321 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.8:1.

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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.