Student-Teacher Ratio

Source

NCES CCD · vintage 2022-2023 · refresh cadence: annual

Direction of better

Lower values are better. Used to rank candidate towns/properties; lower score = stronger fit.

Unit

Values are reported in percent.

Default weight in Education composite

20% of the Education composite by default. Users can override this weight in their intake; the displayed score reflects the user's chosen weighting, never a fixed default.

Where the data lives

Tables: national_schools

Columns: student_teacher_ratio

Input field: studentTeacherRatio

JSON-LD example

Every value emitted by ValiFit (in /api/v1, MCP responses, on-page JSON-LD) carries a propertyID set to this metric_id, so AI clients can resolve it back here in one round-trip.

{
  "@type": "PropertyValue",
  "propertyID": "education.student_teacher_ratio",
  "name": "Student-Teacher Ratio",
  "value": 12.4,
  "unitText": "percent",
  "additionalProperty": [
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "composite",
      "value": "Education"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "level",
      "value": "city"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "direction",
      "value": "lower_better"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "source_year",
      "value": "2022-2023"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "fha_safe",
      "value": true
    }
  ],
  "valueReference": {
    "@type": "QuantitativeValue",
    "additionalType": "https://valifit.com/catalog/metric",
    "identifier": "education.student_teacher_ratio",
    "sameAs": "NCES CCD"
  },
  "mentions": [
    {
      "@type": "Dataset",
      "@id": "https://valifit.com/sources/nces-f33-school-district-finance",
      "identifier": "NCES_F33",
      "name": "NCES Local Education Agency Finance Survey",
      "url": "https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/f33agency.asp",
      "sameAs": "https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/f33agency.asp",
      "creator": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "name": "National Center for Education Statistics"
      },
      "temporalCoverage": "annual",
      "dateModified": "2026-07-21"
    }
  ]
}