NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools VA

Best-Resourced Schools in Waynesboro, VA

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8 public K-12 schools in Waynesboro 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
3,677
Students
50.1/100
Avg Resource Index
13.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Waynesboro has more public-school enrollment than 39% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Waynesboro 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.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

4 of Waynesboro's 8 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Economic need crosses separate district systems

84.3% of enrollment in reporting Waynesboro schools is eligible for free lunch, while the city list spans 2 districts. That pairing makes a citywide average especially easy to misread: the need measure follows students, but staffing decisions, calendars, program rules, and federal allocations are administered through separate district structures. The 23-point gap between Westwood Hills Elementary and Wayne Hills Center shows how much reported resource capacity can vary inside the same municipal label. Compare schools within the same district first, then use the city view to see how those local systems differ.

City enrollment
Top 61%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
87th percentile
Teacher staffing
78th percentile

Waynesboro High accounts for 25.2% of all Waynesboro public-school enrollment

That concentration means Waynesboro-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

Waynesboro school enrollment varies 5.0× across entities

Waynesboro school enrollment ranges from 184 students (lowest) to 926 students (highest), a spread of 742 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

Waynesboro reports 84.3% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share is at least 75%, indicating a high concentration of measured economic need. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Waynesboro student-teacher ratio is 13.1:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Westwood Hills Elementary 62
2. Berkeley Glenn Elementary 58
3. Cassell Elementary 53
4. Wenonah Elementary 53
5. William Perry Elementary 51
6. Waynesboro High 43
7. Kate Collins Middle 42
8. Wayne Hills Center 39

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Waynesboro

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 William Perry Elementary 71.1/100
  2. 2 Kate Collins Middle 69.7/100
  3. 3 Wenonah Elementary 69.4/100
  4. 4 Wayne Hills Center 69.3/100
  5. 5 Waynesboro High 68.9/100

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Which Waynesboro school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Westwood Hills Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Waynesboro schools in this federal-data comparison at 62/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Waynesboro, VA? ▼

Waynesboro has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,677 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.1:1.

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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.