32 public K-12 schools in Sugar Land from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Sugar Land has more public-school enrollment than 97% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Sugar Land 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.
16 of Sugar Land's 32 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.
The 24-point gap between Commonwealth El and Harmony School of Innovation-Sugar Land shows the range hidden by Sugar Land'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.
Sugar Land school enrollment ranges from 340 students (lowest) to 2,655 students (highest), a spread of 2,315 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. 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
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 Sugar Land is typically wider than the Sugar Land-aggregate figure suggests.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Commonwealth El | 58 |
| 2. | Lakeview El | 53 |
| 3. | Anne Mccormick Sullivan El | 49 |
| 4. | Dulles H S | 47 |
| 5. | Harmony School of Excellence - Sugar Land | 47 |
| 6. | Sugar Land Middle | 47 |
| 7. | Cornerstone El | 47 |
| 8. | Sartartia Middle | 46 |
| 9. | First Colony Middle | 46 |
| 10. | Harmony Science Academy-Sugar Land | 46 |
| 11. | Settlers Way El | 46 |
| 12. | Colony Meadows El | 46 |
| 13. | Bess Campbell El | 46 |
| 14. | Highlands El | 46 |
| 15. | Brazos Bend El | 45 |
| 16. | Susanna Dickinson El | 45 |
| 17. | Austin Parkway El | 45 |
| 18. | Colony Bend El | 45 |
| 19. | Dulles Middle | 44 |
| 20. | Oyster Creek El | 44 |
| 21. | Walker Station El | 44 |
| 22. | Kempner H S | 43 |
| 23. | Fort Settlement Middle | 43 |
| 24. | Macario Garcia Middle | 43 |
| 25. | Sugar Mill El | 43 |
| 26. | Rita Drabek El | 42 |
| 27. | Townewest El | 42 |
| 28. | Clements H S | 41 |
| 29. | Barrington Place El | 41 |
| 30. | Stephen F Austin H S | 37 |
| 31. | Dulles El | 35 |
| 32. | Harmony School of Innovation-Sugar Land | 34 |
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.
Commonwealth El has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Sugar Land schools in this federal-data comparison at 58/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Sugar Land has 32 public schools with a total enrollment of 32,248 students. 3 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.2:1.
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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.
