NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools WV

Best-Resourced Schools in Clarksburg, WV

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9 public K-12 schools in Clarksburg 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
2,688
Students
43.7/100
Avg Resource Index
9.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact system with teacher-dense staffing

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Clarksburg has more public-school enrollment than 24% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Clarksburg is a comparatively small school market by total enrollment, yet its average student-teacher ratio is lower than most cities in the national comparison set. Small scale can make that staffing pattern easier to sustain, but it can also limit the breadth of specialized programs available at any one campus. The school list below shows whether students are concentrated in one combined-grade campus or distributed across separate elementary, middle, and high-school settings.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

5 of Clarksburg'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

Clarksburg lists only 9 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 6 to 689 students, a 115-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 76%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
64th percentile
Teacher staffing
99th percentile

Robert C Byrd High School accounts for 25.6% of all Clarksburg public-school enrollment

That concentration means Clarksburg-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

Clarksburg school enrollment varies 115× across entities

Clarksburg school enrollment ranges from 6 students (lowest) to 689 students (highest), a spread of 683 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

Clarksburg operates one school district — a single-district system

Clarksburg'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

Clarksburg student-teacher ratio is 9.6:1 — 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. Victory Elementary School 62
2. Evolution High School 52
3. North View Elementary School 45
4. Evolution Middle School 43
5. Washington Irving Middle School 42
6. Mountaineer Middle School 40
7. Liberty High School 40
8. Robert C Byrd High School 36
9. United High School 33

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Clarksburg

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 North View Elementary School 34.9/100
  2. 2 Washington Irving Middle School 28.6/100
  3. 3 Robert C Byrd High School 24.6/100
  4. 4 Victory Elementary School 21.7/100
  5. 5 Mountaineer Middle School 20.0/100

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Which Clarksburg school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Victory Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Clarksburg schools in this federal-data comparison at 62/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Clarksburg, WV? ▼

Clarksburg has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,688 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 9.6:1.

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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.