20 public K-12 schools in Longview 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, Longview has more public-school enrollment than 67% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Longview 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.
Longview's list includes 8 elementary, 3 middle, and 5 high-school campuses, plus 4 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.
The 41-point gap between Discovery High School and Longview Virtual Academy shows the range hidden by Longview'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.
Longview school enrollment ranges from 12 students (lowest) to 926 students (highest), a spread of 914 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
The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
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 Longview is typically wider than the Longview-aggregate figure suggests.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Discovery High School | 58 |
| 2. | Northlake Elementary School | 54 |
| 3. | Columbia Valley Garden Elem Schl | 51 |
| 4. | Columbia Heights Elementary | 49 |
| 5. | Kelso Virtual Academy | 49 |
| 6. | Olympic Elementary School | 48 |
| 7. | Mt. Solo Middle School | 47 |
| 8. | Kessler Elementary School | 47 |
| 9. | Mint Valley Elementary | 46 |
| 10. | Saint Helens Elementary | 46 |
| 11. | Cascade Middle School | 45 |
| 12. | Robert Gray Elementary | 45 |
| 13. | Monticello Middle School | 43 |
| 14. | Broadway Learning Center | 34 |
| 15. | Mark Morris High School | 31 |
| 16. | R a Long High School | 30 |
| 17. | Discovery High School-Achieve | 30 |
| 18. | Cowlitz County Youth Services Center | 30 |
| 19. | Kelso Goal Oriented Learning Design | 30 |
| 20. | Longview Virtual Academy | 17 |
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.
Discovery High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Longview 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.
Longview has 20 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,624 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 17.9:1.
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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.
