NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools WA

Best-Resourced Schools in Yelm, WA

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9 public K-12 schools in Yelm 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
5,253
Students
42.2/100
Avg Resource Index
18.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Yelm has more public-school enrollment than 57% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Yelm sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

5 of Yelm's 9 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

Yelm lists only 9 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 116 to 1,693 students, a 15-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 43%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
56th percentile
Teacher staffing
24th percentile

Yelm High School 12 accounts for 32.2% of all Yelm public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Yelm-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

Yelm school enrollment varies 15× across entities

Yelm school enrollment ranges from 116 students (lowest) to 1,693 students (highest), a spread of 1,577 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

Yelm operates one school district — a single-district system

Yelm'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

Yelm student-teacher ratio is 18.3:1 — 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. Mill Pond Elementary School 47
2. Lackamas Elementary 47
3. Ridgeline Middle School 46
4. Fort Stevens Elementary 45
5. Yelm Prairie Elementary 44
6. Yelm Middle School 43
7. Southworth Elementary 42
8. Yelm High School 12 38
9. Yelm Extension School 28

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Yelm

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 Southworth Elementary 63.1/100
  2. 2 Fort Stevens Elementary 61.9/100
  3. 3 Yelm High School 12 58.7/100
  4. 4 Mill Pond Elementary School 58.4/100
  5. 5 Yelm Middle School 56.2/100

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Which Yelm school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Mill Pond Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Yelm schools in this federal-data comparison at 47/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Yelm, WA? ▼

Yelm has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,253 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 18.3:1.

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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.