NCES CCD 2024-25 12 schools WA

Best-Resourced Schools in Oak Harbor, WA

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

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12
Schools
5,744
Students
41.3/100
Avg Resource Index
18.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Oak Harbor has more public-school enrollment than 61% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Oak Harbor 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

Oak Harbor's list includes 5 elementary, 1 middle, and 2 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.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 28-point gap between Oak Harbor High School and Special Education shows the range hidden by Oak Harbor'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.

City enrollment
Top 39%
School count
Top 31%
Resource Index average
52nd percentile
Teacher staffing
21st percentile

Oak Harbor High School accounts for 27.2% of all Oak Harbor public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Oak Harbor-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

Oak Harbor school enrollment varies 142× across entities

Oak Harbor school enrollment ranges from 11 students (lowest) to 1,562 students (highest), a spread of 1,551 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

Oak Harbor operates one school district — a single-district system

Oak Harbor'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

Oak Harbor student-teacher ratio is 18.8:1 — 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. Oak Harbor High School 51
2. Broad View Elementary 50
3. Crescent Harbor Elem 48
4. Hillcrest Elementary 47
5. Olympic View Elem 46
6. Oak Harbor Intermediate School 43
7. Oak Harbor Elementary 43
8. North Whidbey Middle School 41
9. Homeconnection 40
10. Oak Harbor Virtual Academy 34
11. Igrad Academy 30
12. Special Education 23

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Oak Harbor

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 Olympic View Elem 71.5/100
  2. 2 Special Education 67.9/100
  3. 3 Oak Harbor Elementary 67.1/100
  4. 4 Oak Harbor Intermediate School 66.0/100
  5. 5 North Whidbey Middle School 65.9/100

What do families ask about schools in Oak Harbor?

Which Oak Harbor school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Oak Harbor High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Oak Harbor schools in this federal-data comparison at 51/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Oak Harbor, WA? ▼

Oak Harbor has 12 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,744 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 18.8:1.

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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.