NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools VA

Best-Resourced Schools in Nokesville, VA

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6 public K-12 schools in Nokesville 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
6,455
Students
51.7/100
Avg Resource Index
15.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Nokesville has more public-school enrollment than 66% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Nokesville 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

3 of Nokesville'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.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Nokesville's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 91st percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 51st percentile. The 40-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 34%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
91st percentile
Teacher staffing
51st percentile

Patriot High accounts for 31.3% of all Nokesville public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Nokesville-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

Nokesville school enrollment varies 4.5× across entities

Nokesville school enrollment ranges from 449 students (lowest) to 2,020 students (highest), a spread of 1,571 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

Nokesville student-teacher ratio is 15.3:1 — 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 Nokesville is typically wider than the Nokesville-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. T. Clay Wood Elementary 58
2. Kettle Run High 57
3. The Nokesville School 50
4. Patriot High 49
5. Brentsville District High 48
6. Greenville Elementary 48

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Nokesville

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 Patriot High 71.2/100
  2. 2 T. Clay Wood Elementary 67.7/100
  3. 3 The Nokesville School 58.3/100
  4. 4 Brentsville District High 54.5/100
  5. 5 Kettle Run High 41.4/100

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Which Nokesville school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

T. Clay Wood Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Nokesville schools in this federal-data comparison at 58/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Nokesville, VA? ▼

Nokesville has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,455 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.3:1.

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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.