NCES CCD 2024-25 10 schools VA

Best-Resourced Schools in Martinsville, VA

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

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10
Schools
4,170
Students
45.8/100
Avg Resource Index
13.4:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Martinsville has more public-school enrollment than 47% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Martinsville 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

5 of Martinsville's 10 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

93.3% of enrollment in reporting Martinsville 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 26-point gap between Martinsville Middle and Martinsville High 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 53%
School count
Top 41%
Resource Index average
73rd percentile
Teacher staffing
74th percentile

Laurel Park Middle accounts for 17.6% of all Martinsville public-school enrollment

That concentration means Martinsville-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

Martinsville school enrollment varies 6.7× across entities

Martinsville school enrollment ranges from 110 students (lowest) to 734 students (highest), a spread of 624 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

Martinsville reports 93.3% 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

Martinsville student-teacher ratio is 13.4:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Martinsville Middle 61
2. Rich Acres Elementary 56
3. Mount Olivet Elementary 54
4. Laurel Park Middle 51
5. G.W. Carver Elementary 46
6. Meadow View Elementary 41
7. Clearview Early Learning Center 41
8. Patrick Henry Elementary 37
9. Albert Harris Elementary 36
10. Martinsville High 35

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Martinsville

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 Rich Acres Elementary 71.6/100
  2. 2 Meadow View Elementary 69.5/100
  3. 3 Mount Olivet Elementary 68.6/100
  4. 4 Laurel Park Middle 66.3/100
  5. 5 G.W. Carver Elementary 62.2/100

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Which Martinsville school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Martinsville Middle has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Martinsville schools in this federal-data comparison at 61/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Martinsville, VA? ▼

Martinsville has 10 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,170 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.4:1.

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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.