NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools VA

Best-Resourced Schools in Mclean, VA

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

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8
Schools
8,986
Students
51.6/100
Avg Resource Index
16.4:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Mclean has more public-school enrollment than 77% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Mclean 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 Mclean's 8 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

Mclean's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 90th 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 20-point gap between Sherman Elementary and Langley 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 23%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
90th percentile
Teacher staffing
39th percentile

Mclean High accounts for 27.0% of all Mclean public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Mclean-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

Mclean school enrollment varies 8.4× across entities

Mclean school enrollment ranges from 290 students (lowest) to 2,428 students (highest), a spread of 2,138 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

Mclean operates one school district — a single-district system

Mclean'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

Mclean student-teacher ratio is 16.4:1 — 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 Mclean is typically wider than the Mclean-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Sherman Elementary 63
2. Cooper Middle 62
3. Chesterbrook Elementary 54
4. Churchill Road Elementary 52
5. Kent Gardens Elementary 50
6. Mclean High 45
7. Spring Hill Elementary 44
8. Langley High 43

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Mclean

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 Churchill Road Elementary 68.5/100
  2. 2 Mclean High 68.3/100
  3. 3 Spring Hill Elementary 65.5/100
  4. 4 Cooper Middle 64.7/100
  5. 5 Langley High 63.2/100

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Which Mclean school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Sherman Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Mclean schools in this federal-data comparison at 63/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Mclean, VA? ▼

Mclean has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 8,986 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.4:1.

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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.