NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools WA

Best-Resourced Schools in Stanwood, WA

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

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9
Schools
4,113
Students
32.8/100
Avg Resource Index
20.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Stanwood has more public-school enrollment than 46% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Stanwood's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Stanwood's list includes 2 elementary, 3 middle, and 2 high-school campuses, 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

Stanwood lists only 9 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 20 to 1,384 students, a 69-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 54%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
19th percentile
Teacher staffing
12th percentile

Stanwood High School accounts for 33.6% of all Stanwood public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Stanwood-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

Stanwood school enrollment varies 69× across entities

Stanwood school enrollment ranges from 20 students (lowest) to 1,384 students (highest), a spread of 1,364 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

Stanwood operates one school district — a single-district system

Stanwood'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

Stanwood student-teacher ratio is 20.9:1 — 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. Twin City Elementary 46
2. Stanwood High School 41
3. Port Susan Middle School 41
4. Cedarhome Elementary School 39
5. Lincoln Hill High School 37
6. Stanwood Elementary School 32
7. Stanwood Middle School 27
8. Lincoln Academy 17
9. Saratoga School 15

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Stanwood

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 Lincoln Hill High School 47.5/100
  2. 2 Cedarhome Elementary School 45.1/100
  3. 3 Twin City Elementary 43.0/100
  4. 4 Stanwood Elementary School 41.6/100
  5. 5 Stanwood Middle School 40.7/100

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Which Stanwood school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Twin City Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Stanwood schools in this federal-data comparison at 46/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Stanwood, WA? ▼

Stanwood has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,113 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 20.9:1.

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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.