NCES CCD 2024-25 24 schools WA

Best-Resourced Schools in Redmond, WA

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

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24
Schools
12,493
Students
45.6/100
Avg Resource Index
20:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Resource breadth with tighter class loads

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Redmond has more public-school enrollment than 85% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Redmond's average Resource Investment Index ranks above most listed cities even though its student-teacher ratio is on the more crowded side of the national city distribution. That is a useful mismatch, not a contradiction: counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance can lift the composite while classroom staffing remains comparatively tight. Families should inspect the component scores on each school profile instead of reading the city index as a shorthand for small classes.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

12 of Redmond's 24 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 5 middle and 3 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Redmond's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 72nd percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 16th percentile. The 56-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 15%
School count
Top 11%
Resource Index average
72nd percentile
Teacher staffing
16th percentile

Redmond High School accounts for 18.4% of all Redmond public-school enrollment

That concentration means Redmond-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

Redmond school enrollment varies 230× across entities

Redmond school enrollment ranges from 10 students (lowest) to 2,304 students (highest), a spread of 2,294 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

Redmond student-teacher ratio is 20.0:1 — 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. Sammamish River Valley Online School 71
2. Nikola Tesla Stem High School 55
3. Sunrise Elementary 54
4. Explorer Community School 54
5. Ella Baker Elementary School 53
6. Emily Dickinson Elementary 53
7. Redmond Middle School 52
8. Horace Mann Elementary 52
9. Clara Barton Elementary School 51
10. Rosa Parks Elementary 51
11. Redmond High School 50
12. Timberline Middle School 50
13. Evergreen Middle School 50
14. John J. Audubon Elementary 50
15. Albert Einstein Elementary 48
16. Norman Rockwell Elementary 48
17. Redmond Elementary 44
18. Benjamin Rush Elementary 43
19. Louisa May Alcott Elementary 42
20. Rose Hill Middle School 40
21. Stella Schola 38
22. Contractual Schools 30
23. Old Redmond Schoolhouse 12
24. Washington Network for Innovative Careers Skill Center 4

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Redmond

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 Albert Einstein Elementary 71.2/100
  2. 2 Redmond Elementary 70.2/100
  3. 3 Old Redmond Schoolhouse 70.1/100
  4. 4 Rose Hill Middle School 69.0/100
  5. 5 Redmond High School 68.4/100

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Which Redmond school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Sammamish River Valley Online School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Redmond schools in this federal-data comparison at 71/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Redmond, WA? ▼

Redmond has 24 public schools with a total enrollment of 12,493 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 20:1.

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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.