NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools VA

Best-Resourced Schools in Bristow, VA

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

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6
Schools
4,365
Students
55/100
Avg Resource Index
16:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Bristow has more public-school enrollment than 49% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Bristow's 6 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

5 of Bristow's 6 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.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Bristow's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 95th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 12-point gap between Cedar Point Elementary and Piney Branch Elementary measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 51%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
95th percentile
Teacher staffing
43rd percentile

E.H. Marsteller Middle accounts for 26.4% of all Bristow public-school enrollment

That concentration means Bristow-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Middle. 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

Bristow school enrollment varies 2.3× across entities

Bristow school enrollment ranges from 510 students (lowest) to 1,153 students (highest), a spread of 643 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

Bristow operates one school district — a single-district system

Bristow'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

Bristow student-teacher ratio is 16.0:1 — 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 Bristow is typically wider than the Bristow-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Cedar Point Elementary 60
2. E.H. Marsteller Middle 57
3. Bristow Run Elementary 57
4. Chris Yung Elementary 56
5. Victory Elementary 52
6. Piney Branch Elementary 48

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Bristow

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 Chris Yung Elementary 76.1/100
  2. 2 Victory Elementary 75.6/100
  3. 3 Bristow Run Elementary 71.3/100
  4. 4 E.H. Marsteller Middle 70.1/100
  5. 5 Piney Branch Elementary 69.5/100

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Which Bristow school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Cedar Point Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Bristow schools in this federal-data comparison at 60/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Bristow, VA? ▼

Bristow has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,365 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16:1.

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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.