NCES CCD 2024-25 28 schools TX

Best-Resourced Schools in Victoria, TX

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

28
Schools
13,498
Students
42/100
Avg Resource Index
15.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Victoria has more public-school enrollment than 87% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Victoria 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

18 of Victoria's 28 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 36-point gap between Nursery El and Victoria East H S shows the range hidden by Victoria'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 13%
School count
Top 9%
Resource Index average
55th percentile
Teacher staffing
53rd percentile

Victoria school enrollment varies 186× across entities

Victoria school enrollment ranges from 10 students (lowest) to 1,861 students (highest), a spread of 1,851 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

Victoria reports 66.1% 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

Victoria student-teacher ratio is 15.1:1 — 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 Victoria is typically wider than the Victoria-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Nursery El 64
2. Mission Valley El 60
3. Victoria Regional Juvenile Justice Center 56
4. Smith Stem Academy 52
5. Shields El 52
6. Patti Welder Middle 47
7. Aloe El 47
8. Pri Daep 46
9. Hopkins El 44
10. Vickers El 43
11. Dudley El 43
12. Smith El 43
13. Harold Cade Middle 42
14. Rowland El 42
15. Rodolfo Torres El 42
16. C O Chandler El 41
17. O'connor El 40
18. Visd Success Academy 40
19. Martin De Leon El 38
20. Ella Schorlemmer El 38
21. Secondary Daep 38
22. Stem Middle 36
23. Victoria West H S 33
24. Stroman Middle 33
25. Crain El 32
26. Howell Middle 29
27. Victoria East H S 28
28. Early Childhood Center at Fw Gross 28

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Victoria

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 Victoria Regional Juvenile Justice Center 65.6/100
  2. 2 Vickers El 57.0/100
  3. 3 Harold Cade Middle 56.6/100
  4. 4 Ella Schorlemmer El 54.5/100
  5. 5 Aloe El 54.1/100

What do families ask about schools in Victoria?

Which Victoria school has the highest Resource Investment Index?

Nursery El has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Victoria schools in this federal-data comparison at 64/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Victoria, TX?

Victoria has 28 public schools with a total enrollment of 13,498 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.1:1.

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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.