NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools WA

Best-Resourced Schools in Rochester, WA

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5 public K-12 schools in Rochester 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
2,175
Students
38.6/100
Avg Resource Index
21.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Rochester has more public-school enrollment than 15% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Rochester'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.

Secondary campuses occupy an unusually large share

2 of the 5 listed Rochester schools are classified as high schools, a substantial share of the local portfolio. Advanced-course access, counseling, and graduation-stage staffing therefore have more weight in the city Resource Index average than they do in an elementary-heavy system.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Rochester lists only 5 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 37 to 608 students, a 16-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 85%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
39th percentile
Teacher staffing
11th percentile

Rochester High School accounts for 28.0% of all Rochester public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Rochester-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

Rochester school enrollment varies 16× across entities

Rochester school enrollment ranges from 37 students (lowest) to 608 students (highest), a spread of 571 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

Rochester operates one school district — a single-district system

Rochester'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

Rochester student-teacher ratio is 21.2:1 — 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. Rochester High School 48
2. Rochester Middle School 48
3. Rochester Primary School 39
4. Grand Mound Elementary 35
5. H.E.a.R.T. High School 23

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Rochester

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 Grand Mound Elementary 57.3/100
  2. 2 Rochester Primary School 56.4/100
  3. 3 Rochester Middle School 55.9/100
  4. 4 Rochester High School 55.1/100
  5. 5 H.E.a.R.T. High School 53.1/100

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Which Rochester school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Rochester High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Rochester schools in this federal-data comparison at 48/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Rochester, WA? ▼

Rochester has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,175 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 21.2:1.

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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.