NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools WA

Best-Resourced Schools in Ridgefield, WA

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

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7
Schools
4,297
Students
38.7/100
Avg Resource Index
24.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Ridgefield has more public-school enrollment than 48% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Ridgefield's 7 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.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Ridgefield's list includes 3 elementary, 1 middle, and 1 high-school campus, plus 2 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.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Ridgefield lists only 7 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 100 to 1,249 students, a 12-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 52%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
40th percentile
Teacher staffing
3rd percentile

Ridgefield High School accounts for 29.1% of all Ridgefield public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Ridgefield-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

Ridgefield school enrollment varies 12× across entities

Ridgefield school enrollment ranges from 100 students (lowest) to 1,249 students (highest), a spread of 1,149 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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

Ridgefield operates one school district — a single-district system

Ridgefield'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

Ridgefield student-teacher ratio is 24.1:1 — 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. Wisdom Ridge Academy 55
2. South Ridge Elementary 49
3. Union Ridge Elementary 47
4. Ridgefield High School 38
5. Sunset Ridge Intermediate School 35
6. View Ridge Middle School 32
7. Ridgefield Early Learning Center 15

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Ridgefield

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 Ridgefield Early Learning Center 52.2/100
  2. 2 South Ridge Elementary 49.2/100
  3. 3 Sunset Ridge Intermediate School 46.8/100
  4. 4 Ridgefield High School 45.5/100
  5. 5 Union Ridge Elementary 44.0/100

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Which Ridgefield school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Wisdom Ridge Academy has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Ridgefield schools in this federal-data comparison at 55/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Ridgefield, WA? ▼

Ridgefield has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,297 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 24.1:1.

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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.