NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools WA

Best-Resourced Schools in Orting, WA

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

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5
Schools
2,821
Students
41.8/100
Avg Resource Index
19.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Orting has more public-school enrollment than 26% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Orting's 5 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

2 of Orting's 5 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

Orting lists only 5 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 12 to 876 students, a 73-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 74%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
54th percentile
Teacher staffing
17th percentile

Orting High School accounts for 31.1% of all Orting public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Orting-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

Orting school enrollment varies 73× across entities

Orting school enrollment ranges from 12 students (lowest) to 876 students (highest), a spread of 864 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

Orting operates one school district — a single-district system

Orting'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

Orting student-teacher ratio is 19.7:1 — 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. Orting Middle School 45
2. Orting High School 42
3. Orting Primary School 42
4. Ptarmigan Ridge Elementary School 38
5. Orting Special Education -

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Orting

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 Ptarmigan Ridge Elementary School 54.4/100
  2. 2 Orting Middle School 54.2/100
  3. 3 Orting High School 53.9/100
  4. 4 Orting Primary School 52.8/100

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Which Orting school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Orting Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Orting schools in this federal-data comparison at 45/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Orting, WA? ▼

Orting has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,821 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 19.7:1.

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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.