NCES CCD 2024-25 10 schools WA

Best-Resourced Schools in Battle Ground, WA

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

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10
Schools
6,861
Students
40/100
Avg Resource Index
18:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Battle Ground has more public-school enrollment than 68% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Battle Ground 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

5 of Battle Ground's 10 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.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 10-point gap between Maple Grove Primary and Homelink River shows the range hidden by Battle Ground's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 32%
School count
Top 41%
Resource Index average
45th percentile
Teacher staffing
25th percentile

Battle Ground High School accounts for 25.6% of all Battle Ground public-school enrollment

That concentration means Battle Ground-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

Battle Ground school enrollment varies 3.9× across entities

Battle Ground school enrollment ranges from 449 students (lowest) to 1,759 students (highest), a spread of 1,310 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

Battle Ground operates one school district — a single-district system

Battle Ground'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

Battle Ground student-teacher ratio is 18.0:1 — 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 Battle Ground is typically wider than the Battle Ground-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Maple Grove Primary 46
2. Battle Ground High School 44
3. Daybreak Primary 43
4. Captain Strong 41
5. Tukes Valley Primary 41
6. Cam Academy 40
7. Chief Umtuch Middle 37
8. Homelink River 36
9. Daybreak Middle 36
10. Tukes Valley Middle School 36

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Battle Ground

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 Maple Grove Primary 51.7/100
  2. 2 Daybreak Middle 42.8/100
  3. 3 Daybreak Primary 42.0/100
  4. 4 Chief Umtuch Middle 34.7/100
  5. 5 Captain Strong 34.2/100

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Which Battle Ground school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Maple Grove Primary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Battle Ground schools in this federal-data comparison at 46/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Battle Ground, WA? ▼

Battle Ground has 10 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,861 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 18:1.

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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.