NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools WA

Best-Resourced Schools in Sultan, WA

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7 public K-12 schools in Sultan 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
1,826
Students
45.4/100
Avg Resource Index
25:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Sultan has more public-school enrollment than 10% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Sultan Elementary School enrolls 37.0% of Sultan's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

Secondary campuses occupy an unusually large share

3 of the 7 listed Sultan 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

Sultan lists only 7 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 11 to 676 students, a 61-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 90%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
72nd percentile
Teacher staffing
2nd percentile

Sultan Elementary School accounts for 37.0% of all Sultan public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Sultan-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Elementary. 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

Sultan school enrollment varies 61× across entities

Sultan school enrollment ranges from 11 students (lowest) to 676 students (highest), a spread of 665 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

Sultan operates one school district — a single-district system

Sultan'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

Sultan student-teacher ratio is 25.0:1 — 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. Sultan Virtual Academy 70
2. Open Doors Youth Reengagement 58
3. Sultan Senior High School 54
4. Sultan Middle School 48
5. Sultan Elementary School 47
6. Sky Valley Options 26
7. Student Services School 15

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Sultan

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 Sultan Elementary School 59.3/100
  2. 2 Sultan Senior High School 56.3/100
  3. 3 Open Doors Youth Reengagement 56.2/100
  4. 4 Sultan Middle School 55.7/100
  5. 5 Sultan Virtual Academy 37.9/100

What do families ask about schools in Sultan?

Which Sultan school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Sultan Virtual Academy has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Sultan schools in this federal-data comparison at 70/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Sultan, WA? ▼

Sultan has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,826 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 25:1.

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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.