NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools WV

Best-Resourced Schools in Bluefield, WV

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7 public K-12 schools in Bluefield 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
2,275
Students
39.4/100
Avg Resource Index
12.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Bluefield has more public-school enrollment than 17% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Bluefield's 7 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

3 of Bluefield's 7 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.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Bluefield's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 43rd percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 80th percentile. The 37-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 83%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
43rd percentile
Teacher staffing
80th percentile

Bluefield High School accounts for 27.2% of all Bluefield public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Bluefield-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

Bluefield school enrollment varies 3.7× across entities

Bluefield school enrollment ranges from 167 students (lowest) to 618 students (highest), a spread of 451 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. 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

Bluefield operates one school district — a single-district system

Bluefield'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

Bluefield student-teacher ratio is 12.9:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Brushfork Elementary School 56
2. Bluefield Intermediate School 47
3. Bluefield Middle School 45
4. Bluewell Elementary School 43
5. Bluefield Primary School 31
6. Mountain Valley Elementary School 30
7. Bluefield High School 24

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Bluefield

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 Bluefield Intermediate School 61.2/100
  2. 2 Bluefield Primary School 58.5/100
  3. 3 Bluefield Middle School 56.5/100
  4. 4 Bluefield High School 52.8/100
  5. 5 Brushfork Elementary School 41.4/100

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Which Bluefield school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Brushfork Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Bluefield schools in this federal-data comparison at 56/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Bluefield, WV? ▼

Bluefield has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,275 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.9:1.

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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.