NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools VA

Best-Resourced Schools in Haymarket, VA

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6 public K-12 schools in Haymarket 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
6,216
Students
54.8/100
Avg Resource Index
16.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Haymarket has more public-school enrollment than 65% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Haymarket'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

4 of Haymarket'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

Haymarket'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 8-point gap between Mountain View Elementary and Battlefield 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 35%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
95th percentile
Teacher staffing
34th percentile

Battlefield High accounts for 33.2% of all Haymarket public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Haymarket-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

Haymarket school enrollment varies 4.9× across entities

Haymarket school enrollment ranges from 418 students (lowest) to 2,063 students (highest), a spread of 1,645 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

Haymarket operates one school district — a single-district system

Haymarket'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

Haymarket student-teacher ratio is 16.9:1 — 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 Haymarket is typically wider than the Haymarket-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Mountain View Elementary 60
2. J.W. Alvey Elementary 58
3. Samuel L. Gravely Jr. Elementary 55
4. Battlefield High 52
5. Ronald Wilson Reagan Middle 52
6. Haymarket Elementary 52

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Haymarket

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 Haymarket Elementary 72.3/100
  2. 2 Ronald Wilson Reagan Middle 68.2/100
  3. 3 Mountain View Elementary 67.5/100
  4. 4 Battlefield High 64.6/100
  5. 5 J.W. Alvey Elementary 61.6/100

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Which Haymarket school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Mountain View Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Haymarket 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 Haymarket, VA? ▼

Haymarket has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,216 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.9:1.

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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.