NCES CCD 2024-25 10 schools WA

Best-Resourced Schools in Ellensburg, WA

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10 public K-12 schools in Ellensburg 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
3,429
Students
35.9/100
Avg Resource Index
18.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Ellensburg has more public-school enrollment than 35% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Ellensburg's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

5 of Ellensburg's 10 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.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Ellensburg lists only 10 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 11 to 957 students, a 87-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 65%
School count
Top 41%
Resource Index average
28th percentile
Teacher staffing
25th percentile

Ellensburg High School accounts for 27.9% of all Ellensburg public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Ellensburg-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

Ellensburg school enrollment varies 87× across entities

Ellensburg school enrollment ranges from 11 students (lowest) to 957 students (highest), a spread of 946 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

Ellensburg student-teacher ratio is 18.1:1 — 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. Morgan Middle School 54
2. Ellensburg High School 44
3. Valley View Elementary School 44
4. Parke Creek Treatment Ctr 43
5. Mt. Stuart Elementary 38
6. Lincoln Elementary 38
7. K-12 Ellensburg Learning Center 30
8. Damman Elementary 17
9. Early Learning Center 15
10. Ida Nason Aronica Elementary -

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Ellensburg

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 Parke Creek Treatment Ctr 67.7/100
  2. 2 Mt. Stuart Elementary 55.3/100
  3. 3 Early Learning Center 54.5/100
  4. 4 Ida Nason Aronica Elementary 53.8/100
  5. 5 Lincoln Elementary 46.8/100

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Which Ellensburg school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Morgan Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Ellensburg schools in this federal-data comparison at 54/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Ellensburg, WA? ▼

Ellensburg has 10 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,429 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 18.1:1.

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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.