NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools WA

Best-Resourced Schools in Monroe, WA

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

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9
Schools
4,793
Students
41.7/100
Avg Resource Index
18.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Monroe has more public-school enrollment than 53% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Monroe 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

6 of Monroe's 9 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

Monroe lists only 9 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 6 to 1,515 students, a 253-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 47%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
54th percentile
Teacher staffing
22nd percentile

Monroe High School accounts for 31.6% of all Monroe public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Monroe-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

Monroe school enrollment varies 253× across entities

Monroe school enrollment ranges from 6 students (lowest) to 1,515 students (highest), a spread of 1,509 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

Monroe operates one school district — a single-district system

Monroe'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

Monroe student-teacher ratio is 18.7:1 — 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. Fryelands Elementary 59
2. Salem Woods Elementary School 54
3. Frank Wagner Elementary 50
4. Leaders in Learning 49
5. Park Place Middle School 45
6. Monroe High School 43
7. Out of District Special Ed 30
8. Monroe Special Ed Preschool 30
9. Sky Valley Education Center 15

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Monroe

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 Leaders in Learning 64.9/100
  2. 2 Park Place Middle School 60.2/100
  3. 3 Monroe High School 57.9/100
  4. 4 Fryelands Elementary 56.9/100
  5. 5 Frank Wagner Elementary 50.3/100

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Which Monroe school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Fryelands Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Monroe schools in this federal-data comparison at 59/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Monroe, WA? ▼

Monroe has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,793 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 18.7:1.

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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.