NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools WA

Best-Resourced Schools in Buckley, WA

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8 public K-12 schools in Buckley 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
4,222
Students
37.7/100
Avg Resource Index
20:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Buckley has more public-school enrollment than 47% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Buckley 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.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Buckley's list includes 2 elementary, 1 middle, and 2 high-school campuses, plus 3 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Buckley lists only 8 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 6 to 1,340 students, a 223-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 53%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
36th percentile
Teacher staffing
16th percentile

White River High School accounts for 31.7% of all Buckley public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Buckley-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

Buckley school enrollment varies 223× across entities

Buckley school enrollment ranges from 6 students (lowest) to 1,340 students (highest), a spread of 1,334 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. 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

Buckley operates one school district — a single-district system

Buckley'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

Buckley student-teacher ratio is 20.0:1 — 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. Elk Ridge Elementary 46
2. Mountain Meadow Elementary 45
3. Foothills Elementary 42
4. Glacier Middle School 35
5. White River High School 34
6. White River Early Learning Center 32
7. White River Reengagement Program 30
8. White River Special Ed Services -

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Buckley

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 Foothills Elementary 53.4/100
  2. 2 White River Early Learning Center 49.0/100
  3. 3 White River Reengagement Program 48.1/100
  4. 4 Mountain Meadow Elementary 45.6/100
  5. 5 White River Special Ed Services 44.4/100

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Which Buckley school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Elk Ridge Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Buckley 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 Buckley, WA? ▼

Buckley has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,222 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 20:1.

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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.