12 public K-12 schools in Yorktown 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, Yorktown has more public-school enrollment than 77% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Yorktown 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.
Yorktown's list includes 4 elementary, 3 middle, and 4 high-school campuses, plus 1 combined-grade record. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.
Yorktown's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 96th 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 16-point gap between Tabb High and Yorktown 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.
Yorktown school enrollment ranges from 72 students (lowest) to 1,235 students (highest), a spread of 1,163 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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
Yorktown'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
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Tabb High | 61 |
| 2. | Coventry Elementary | 59 |
| 3. | Grafton High | 58 |
| 4. | York High | 57 |
| 5. | Mount Vernon Elementary | 57 |
| 6. | Tabb Middle | 56 |
| 7. | Dare Elementary | 56 |
| 8. | Yorktown Middle | 55 |
| 9. | Grafton Middle | 54 |
| 10. | Tabb Elementary | 53 |
| 11. | York River Academy | 50 |
| 12. | Yorktown Elementary | 45 |
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.
Tabb High has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Yorktown schools in this federal-data comparison at 61/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Yorktown has 12 public schools with a total enrollment of 8,937 students. 1 are charter schools.
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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.
