NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools VA

Best-Resourced Schools in Buena Vista, VA

Compiled from official source data by PlainSchools. · Updated August 2026

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

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Schools

1,040

Students

46.8/100

Avg Resource Index

15.3:1

Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Buena Vista has more public-school enrollment than 2% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Buena Vista 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

3 of Buena Vista'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.

Economic need crosses separate district systems

83.4% of enrollment in reporting Buena Vista schools is eligible for free lunch, while the city list spans 2 districts. That pairing makes a citywide average especially easy to misread: the need measure follows students, but staffing decisions, calendars, program rules, and federal allocations are administered through separate district structures. The 25-point gap between Parry Mccluer Middle and F.W. Kling Jr. Elementary shows how much reported resource capacity can vary inside the same municipal label. Compare schools within the same district first, then use the city view to see how those local systems differ.

City enrollment: Top 98%
School count: Top 99%
Resource Index average: 77th percentile
Teacher staffing: 51st percentile

Parry Mccluer High accounts for 30.3% of all Buena Vista public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Buena Vista-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Combined. 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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Buena Vista school enrollment varies 2.5× across entities

Buena Vista school enrollment ranges from 126 students (lowest) to 315 students (highest), a spread of 189 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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Buena Vista reports 83.4% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share is at least 75%, indicating a high concentration of measured economic need. 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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Buena Vista student-teacher ratio is 15.3:1 — 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 Buena Vista is typically wider than the Buena Vista-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe Accessed 2026-08-26

#	School	Score	Enrollment	Level	District
1.	Parry Mccluer Middle	59	126	middle	Buena Vista City Public Schools
2.	Mountain View Elementary	56	154	Combined	Rockbridge County Public Schools
3.	Parry Mccluer High	48	315	Combined	Buena Vista City Public Schools
4.	Enderly Heights Elementary	37	268	elementary	Buena Vista City Public Schools
5.	F.W. Kling Jr. Elementary	34	177	Combined	Buena Vista City Public Schools

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Buena Vista

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.

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Which Buena Vista school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Parry Mccluer Middle has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Buena Vista schools in this federal-data comparison at 59/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Buena Vista, VA? ▼

Buena Vista has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,040 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.3:1.

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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.