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Alpine, Arizona - 1 schools
At $22,709 per pupil, Alpine Elementary District (4161) ranks #48 of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending (Arizona districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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$22,709
Per-Pupil Spending
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Alpine Elementary District (4161) operates 1 public schools serving 59 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Arizona. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary 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 Apache County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $22,709 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 64 of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending. See how Arizona compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 44.8% local, 37.2% state, and 17.9% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 42.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 69.6% White, 21.4% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Alpine Elementary School, enrolling 56 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Alpine Elementary School accounts for 94.9% of all Alpine Elementary District (4161) student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Alpine Elementary District (4161) a distant remainder — means Alpine Elementary District (4161)-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.
Alpine Elementary District (4161) chronic absenteeism rate is 42.9% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Comparisons are relative to Alpine Elementary District (4161)'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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