NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools VT

Best-Resourced Schools in Rutland, VT

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

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5
Schools
1,911
Students
38.2/100
Avg Resource Index
15.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Rutland has more public-school enrollment than 11% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Rutland Senior High School enrolls 37.7% of Rutland's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

2 of Rutland's 5 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 4-point gap between Northeast Primary School and Rutland Intermediate School shows the range hidden by Rutland'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 89%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
38th percentile
Teacher staffing
48th percentile

Rutland Senior High School accounts for 37.7% of all Rutland public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Rutland-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

Rutland school enrollment varies 3.6× across entities

Rutland school enrollment ranges from 200 students (lowest) to 721 students (highest), a spread of 521 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

Rutland operates one school district — a single-district system

Rutland'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

Rutland student-teacher ratio is 15.5:1 — 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 Rutland is typically wider than the Rutland-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Northeast Primary School 40
2. Rutland Middle School 39
3. Rutland Senior High School 38
4. Northwest Primary School 38
5. Rutland Intermediate School 36

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Rutland

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 Northwest Primary School 38.3/100
  2. 2 Rutland Intermediate School 35.1/100
  3. 3 Rutland Middle School 29.5/100
  4. 4 Rutland Senior High School 29.3/100
  5. 5 Northeast Primary School 28.6/100

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Which Rutland school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Northeast Primary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Rutland schools in this federal-data comparison at 40/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Rutland, VT? ▼

Rutland has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,911 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.5:1.

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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.