NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools WA

Best-Resourced Schools in Belfair, WA

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

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7
Schools
2,337
Students
43.6/100
Avg Resource Index
19.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Belfair has more public-school enrollment than 18% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Belfair's 7 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

3 of Belfair's 7 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.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Belfair lists only 7 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 54 to 735 students, a 14-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 82%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
63rd percentile
Teacher staffing
17th percentile

North Mason Senior High School accounts for 31.5% of all Belfair public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Belfair-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

Belfair school enrollment varies 14× across entities

Belfair school enrollment ranges from 54 students (lowest) to 735 students (highest), a spread of 681 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

Belfair operates one school district — a single-district system

Belfair'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

Belfair student-teacher ratio is 19.7:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. North Mason Homelink Program 58
2. North Mason Senior High School 55
3. Hawkins Middle School 45
4. Belfair Elementary 45
5. Sand Hill Elementary 44
6. Mary E. Theler Early Learning Center 33
7. James a. Taylor High School 25

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Belfair

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 Mary E. Theler Early Learning Center 58.5/100
  2. 2 Belfair Elementary 57.8/100
  3. 3 Sand Hill Elementary 56.3/100
  4. 4 North Mason Senior High School 55.7/100
  5. 5 Hawkins Middle School 54.6/100

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Which Belfair school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

North Mason Homelink Program has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Belfair schools in this federal-data comparison at 58/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Belfair, WA? ▼

Belfair has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,337 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 19.7:1.

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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.