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Aguila, Arizona - 2 schools
At $18,597 per pupil, Aguila Elementary District (4249) ranks #84 of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending (Arizona districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
142
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$18,597
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Aguila Elementary District (4249) operates 2 public schools serving 142 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Arizona. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary, 1 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Maricopa County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $18,597 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending. See how Arizona compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 22.2% local, 44.6% state, and 33.2% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
. Demographically, the student body averages 94.0% Hispanic or Latino, 2.8% White, 1.6% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Aguila Elementary School, enrolling 124 students (88% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Aguila Pre-School, at 17 students, a 7x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Aguila Elementary School accounts for 87.3% of all Aguila Elementary District (4249) student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Aguila Elementary District (4249) a distant remainder — means Aguila Elementary District (4249)-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Aguila Elementary District (4249) has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 97.6% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Eligibility here is a supermajority of the population — well past the 75% concentration-grant threshold that unlocks extra funding on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Comparisons are relative to Aguila Elementary District (4249)'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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