NCES CCD 2024-25 16 schools VA

Best-Resourced Schools in Danville, VA

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

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16
Schools
6,841
Students
44.1/100
Avg Resource Index
14:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Danville has more public-school enrollment than 68% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Danville 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.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Danville's list includes 6 elementary, 2 middle, and 2 high-school campuses, plus 6 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

Economic need crosses separate district systems

90.8% of enrollment in reporting Danville 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 51-point gap between Forest Hills Elementary and R.I.S.E Academy at the John M. Langston Campus 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 32%
School count
Top 21%
Resource Index average
66th percentile
Teacher staffing
67th percentile

George Washington High accounts for 18.2% of all Danville public-school enrollment

That concentration means Danville-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

Danville school enrollment varies 10× across entities

Danville school enrollment ranges from 122 students (lowest) to 1,248 students (highest), a spread of 1,126 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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

Danville reports 90.8% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share is above 87.5%, so economic need is widespread across the measured student population. 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

Danville student-teacher ratio is 14.0:1 — 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 Danville is typically wider than the Danville-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Forest Hills Elementary 69
2. Galileo Magnet High 63
3. Brosville Elementary 59
4. Schoolfield Elementary 51
5. Stony Mill Elementary 50
6. Twin Springs Elementary 48
7. Woodberry Hills Elementary 45
8. Park Avenue Elementary 45
9. Grove Park Preschool 43
10. G.L.H. Johnson Elementary 40
11. George Washington High 37
12. Edwin a. Gibson Elementary 36
13. The Northside Preschool 35
14. Westwood Middle 33
15. O. Trent Bonner Middle 33
16. R.I.S.E Academy at the John M. Langston Campus 18

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Danville

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 Galileo Magnet High 68.9/100
  2. 2 Forest Hills Elementary 65.6/100
  3. 3 O. Trent Bonner Middle 60.4/100
  4. 4 Park Avenue Elementary 60.2/100
  5. 5 Schoolfield Elementary 59.2/100

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Which Danville school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Forest Hills Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Danville schools in this federal-data comparison at 69/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Danville, VA? ▼

Danville has 16 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,841 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14:1.

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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.