21 public K-12 schools in Stafford from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Stafford has more public-school enrollment than 94% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Stafford 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.
Stafford's list includes 8 elementary, 5 middle, and 4 high-school campuses, plus 4 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.
Stafford'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 13-point gap between Andrew G. Wright Middle and Hampton Oaks Elementary 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.
Stafford school enrollment ranges from 264 students (lowest) to 2,233 students (highest), a spread of 1,969 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
Stafford'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
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 Stafford is typically wider than the Stafford-aggregate figure suggests.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Andrew G. Wright Middle | 57 |
| 2. | Mountain View High | 56 |
| 3. | Colonial Forge High | 56 |
| 4. | Stafford Middle | 55 |
| 5. | Anne E. Moncure Elementary | 54 |
| 6. | Winding Creek Elementary | 54 |
| 7. | Rockhill Elementary | 54 |
| 8. | H.H. Poole Middle | 53 |
| 9. | Brooke Point High | 52 |
| 10. | Rodney E. Thompson Middle | 52 |
| 11. | Park Ridge Elementary | 52 |
| 12. | Garrisonville Elementary | 52 |
| 13. | North Stafford High | 51 |
| 14. | Shirley C. Heim Middle | 51 |
| 15. | Anthony Burns Elementary | 51 |
| 16. | Widewater Elementary | 50 |
| 17. | Margaret Brent Elementary | 49 |
| 18. | Kate Waller Barrett Elementary | 47 |
| 19. | North Star Early Childhood Education Center | 45 |
| 20. | Hampton Oaks Elementary | 44 |
| 21. | Stafford Elementary | 44 |
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.
Andrew G. Wright Middle has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Stafford schools in this federal-data comparison at 57/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Stafford has 21 public schools with a total enrollment of 22,425 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.8:1.
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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.
