NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools WA

Best-Resourced Schools in Vashon, WA

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5 public K-12 schools in Vashon 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
1,468
Students
34.2/100
Avg Resource Index
30.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Vashon has more public-school enrollment than 5% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Vashon'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.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

2 of Vashon's 5 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.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Vashon lists only 5 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 50 to 511 students, a 10-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 95%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
23rd percentile
Teacher staffing
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Vashon Island High School accounts for 34.8% of all Vashon public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Vashon-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

Vashon school enrollment varies 10× across entities

Vashon school enrollment ranges from 50 students (lowest) to 511 students (highest), a spread of 461 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

Vashon operates one school district — a single-district system

Vashon'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

Vashon student-teacher ratio is 30.9:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)

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 Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Chautauqua Elementary 58
2. Mcmurray Middle School 54
3. Vashon Island High School 44
4. Student Link 15
5. Family Link -

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Vashon

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 Chautauqua Elementary 51.6/100
  2. 2 Mcmurray Middle School 42.8/100
  3. 3 Student Link 38.6/100
  4. 4 Vashon Island High School 38.0/100
  5. 5 Family Link 24.6/100

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Which Vashon school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Chautauqua Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Vashon schools in this federal-data comparison at 58/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Vashon, WA? ▼

Vashon has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,468 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 30.9:1.

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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.