NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools WV

Best-Resourced Schools in Charles Town, WV

Compiled from official source data by .

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

PlainSchools home → About this data
5
Schools
3,256
Students
41.6/100
Avg Resource Index
16.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Charles Town has more public-school enrollment than 33% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Washington High School enrolls 44.8% of Charles Town'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.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

2 of Charles Town'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.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 16-point gap between Wright Denny Intermediate School and Washington High School shows the range hidden by Charles Town's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 67%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
53rd percentile
Teacher staffing
42nd percentile

Washington High School accounts for 44.8% of all Charles Town public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Charles Town-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

Charles Town school enrollment varies 4.0× across entities

Charles Town school enrollment ranges from 366 students (lowest) to 1,458 students (highest), a spread of 1,092 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

Charles Town operates one school district — a single-district system

Charles Town'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

Charles Town student-teacher ratio is 16.1:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

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 Variation between sub-units within Charles Town is typically wider than the Charles Town-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Wright Denny Intermediate School 48
2. Charles Town Middle School 44
3. South Jefferson Elementary School 44
4. Page Jackson Elementary 40
5. Washington High School 32

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Charles Town

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 Wright Denny Intermediate School 58.8/100
  2. 2 Page Jackson Elementary 55.6/100
  3. 3 Washington High School 50.5/100
  4. 4 Charles Town Middle School 50.3/100
  5. 5 South Jefferson Elementary School 38.9/100

What do families ask about schools in Charles Town?

Which Charles Town school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Wright Denny Intermediate School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Charles Town schools in this federal-data comparison at 48/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Charles Town, WV? ▼

Charles Town has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,256 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.1:1.

Other Cities in West Virginia

Charleston
27 schools
Martinsburg
17 schools
Huntington
16 schools
Morgantown
16 schools
Parkersburg
16 schools
Wheeling
14 schools

Side-by-side: Compare any two schools or districts in West Virginia →

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.