NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools WI

Best-Resourced Schools in New Berlin, WI

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7 public K-12 schools in New Berlin 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
4,669
Students
59.7/100
Avg Resource Index
16.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, New Berlin has more public-school enrollment than 52% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. New Berlin 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

7 of New Berlin'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

New Berlin's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 99th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 41st percentile. The 58-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 48%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
99th percentile
Teacher staffing
41st percentile

Eisenhower Middle/High accounts for 23.5% of all New Berlin public-school enrollment

That concentration means New Berlin-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Combined. 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

New Berlin school enrollment varies 3.3× across entities

New Berlin school enrollment ranges from 335 students (lowest) to 1,095 students (highest), a spread of 760 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

New Berlin student-teacher ratio is 16.2:1 — 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 New Berlin is typically wider than the New Berlin-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Ronald Reagan Elementary 66
2. Elmwood Elementary 65
3. Orchard Lane Elementary 64
4. Poplar Creek Elementary 63
5. New Berlin West Middle/High 56
6. Eisenhower Middle/High 52
7. Hoover Elementary 52

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in New Berlin

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 Hoover Elementary 70.5/100
  2. 2 Orchard Lane Elementary 47.0/100
  3. 3 Poplar Creek Elementary 41.5/100
  4. 4 Elmwood Elementary 40.3/100
  5. 5 Eisenhower Middle/High 39.1/100

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Which New Berlin school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Ronald Reagan Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the New Berlin schools in this federal-data comparison at 66/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in New Berlin, WI? ▼

New Berlin has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,669 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.2:1.

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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.