15 public K-12 schools in Vienna 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, Vienna has more public-school enrollment than 86% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Vienna lands in the upper national tier on both the average Resource Investment Index and teacher staffing intensity. Those measures come from different inputs: the index combines reported counselors, gifted access, attendance, and staffing, while the staffing percentile compares the city's student-teacher ratio directly. Agreement across both measures is stronger evidence of broad reported capacity than either score alone, though neither is a test-score rating or a guarantee about an individual classroom.
11 of Vienna's 15 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.
Vienna'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 19-point gap between Thoreau Middle and Kilmer Center 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.
That concentration means Vienna-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
Vienna school enrollment ranges from 57 students (lowest) to 2,621 students (highest), a spread of 2,564 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme heterogeneity inside a single city, with small specialty programs listed alongside large comprehensive campuses. 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
Vienna'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 Vienna is typically wider than the Vienna-aggregate figure suggests.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Thoreau Middle | 60 |
| 2. | Kilmer Middle | 60 |
| 3. | Vienna Elementary | 57 |
| 4. | Stenwood Elementary | 56 |
| 5. | Wolftrap Elementary | 56 |
| 6. | Cunningham Park Elementary | 53 |
| 7. | Freedom Hill Elementary | 52 |
| 8. | Flint Hill Elementary | 51 |
| 9. | Westbriar Elementary | 50 |
| 10. | Colvin Run Elementary | 50 |
| 11. | Archer Elementary | 49 |
| 12. | Marshall Road Elementary | 46 |
| 13. | Oakton High | 45 |
| 14. | Madison High | 45 |
| 15. | Kilmer Center | 41 |
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.
Thoreau Middle has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Vienna schools in this federal-data comparison at 60/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Vienna has 15 public schools with a total enrollment of 12,980 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.2:1.
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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.
