NCES CCD 2024-25 16 schools WA

Best-Resourced Schools in Richland, WA

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

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16
Schools
11,723
Students
42.6/100
Avg Resource Index
20.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Richland has more public-school enrollment than 84% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Richland 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

8 of Richland's 16 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.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Richland's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 59th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 15th percentile. The 44-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 16%
School count
Top 21%
Resource Index average
59th percentile
Teacher staffing
15th percentile

Richland High School accounts for 18.9% of all Richland public-school enrollment

That concentration means Richland-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

Richland school enrollment varies 9.1× across entities

Richland school enrollment ranges from 245 students (lowest) to 2,218 students (highest), a spread of 1,973 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. 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

Richland student-teacher ratio is 20.2:1 — 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. Sacajawea Elementary 56
2. Marcus Whitman Elementary 55
3. Jefferson Elementary 55
4. Jason Lee Elementary School 54
5. Lewis & Clark Elementary School 54
6. Amon Creek Elementary 52
7. Chief Joseph Middle School 48
8. Orchard Elementary 44
9. Badger Mountain Elementary 41
10. Carmichael Middle School 39
11. White Bluffs Elementary School 38
12. Richland High School 37
13. Hanford High School 36
14. Rivers Edge High School 33
15. Three Rivers Home Link 23
16. Richland School District Early Learning Center 16

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Richland

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 Lewis & Clark Elementary School 61.6/100
  2. 2 Jefferson Elementary 57.6/100
  3. 3 Richland School District Early Learning Center 56.2/100
  4. 4 Chief Joseph Middle School 55.2/100
  5. 5 Carmichael Middle School 54.2/100

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Which Richland school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Sacajawea Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Richland schools in this federal-data comparison at 56/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Richland, WA? ▼

Richland has 16 public schools with a total enrollment of 11,723 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 20.2:1.

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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.