NCES CCD 2024-25 24 schools VA

Best-Resourced Schools in Springfield, VA

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

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24
Schools
17,683
Students
50/100
Avg Resource Index
14.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Springfield has more public-school enrollment than 91% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Springfield 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

18 of Springfield's 24 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

Springfield'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 38-point gap between Irving Middle and Fairfax County Adult 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 9%
School count
Top 11%
Resource Index average
87th percentile
Teacher staffing
63rd percentile

West Springfield High accounts for 15.8% of all Springfield public-school enrollment

That concentration means Springfield-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

Springfield school enrollment varies 65× across entities

Springfield school enrollment ranges from 43 students (lowest) to 2,799 students (highest), a spread of 2,756 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. 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

Springfield operates one school district — a single-district system

Springfield'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

Springfield student-teacher ratio is 14.3:1 — 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 Springfield is typically wider than the Springfield-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Irving Middle 58
2. West Springfield Elementary 58
3. Sangster Elementary 57
4. Kings Park Elementary 56
5. Key Middle 55
6. Rolling Valley Elementary 55
7. Orange Hunt Elementary 54
8. Hunt Valley Elementary 54
9. Saratoga Elementary 54
10. Ravensworth Elementary 54
11. Garfield Elementary 54
12. Crestwood Elementary 53
13. North Springfield Elementary 52
14. Springfield Estates Elementary 51
15. Forestdale Elementary 51
16. Keene Mill Elementary 50
17. Kings Glen Elementary 48
18. Lynbrook Elementary 47
19. Newington Forest Elementary 47
20. West Springfield High 45
21. Cardinal Forest Elementary 45
22. Lewis High 41
23. Key Center 40
24. Fairfax County Adult High 20

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Springfield

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 Saratoga Elementary 76.2/100
  2. 2 Springfield Estates Elementary 75.8/100
  3. 3 Key Center 75.4/100
  4. 4 Keene Mill Elementary 75.0/100
  5. 5 Rolling Valley Elementary 72.5/100

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Which Springfield school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Irving Middle has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Springfield 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 Springfield, VA? ▼

Springfield has 24 public schools with a total enrollment of 17,683 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.3:1.

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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.