NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools VA

Best-Resourced Schools in Gainesville, VA

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6 public K-12 schools in Gainesville 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
6,959
Students
50/100
Avg Resource Index
17.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Gainesville has more public-school enrollment than 69% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Gainesville High enrolls 38.1% of Gainesville'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

3 of Gainesville'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

Gainesville's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 87th 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 16-point gap between Glenkirk Elementary and Gainesville High 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 31%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
87th percentile
Teacher staffing
31st percentile

Gainesville High accounts for 38.1% of all Gainesville public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Gainesville-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

Gainesville school enrollment varies 5.4× across entities

Gainesville school enrollment ranges from 490 students (lowest) to 2,648 students (highest), a spread of 2,158 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

Gainesville operates one school district — a single-district system

Gainesville'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

Gainesville student-teacher ratio is 17.3:1 — 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 Gainesville is typically wider than the Gainesville-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Glenkirk Elementary 57
2. Gainesville Middle 54
3. Bull Run Middle 54
4. Buckland Mills Elementary 50
5. George G. Tyler Elementary 44
6. Gainesville High 41

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Gainesville

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 Buckland Mills Elementary 75.2/100
  2. 2 George G. Tyler Elementary 73.9/100
  3. 3 Gainesville High 73.2/100
  4. 4 Bull Run Middle 72.0/100
  5. 5 Gainesville Middle 71.6/100

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Which Gainesville school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Glenkirk Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Gainesville schools in this federal-data comparison at 57/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Gainesville, VA? ▼

Gainesville has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,959 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 17.3:1.

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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.