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Portal, Arizona - 1 schools
At $42,167 per pupil, Apache Elementary District (4178) ranks #10 of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending (Arizona districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
12
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$42,167
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Apache Elementary District (4178) operates 1 public schools serving 12 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 Cochise County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $42,167 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 44.3% local, 18.8% state, and 36.9% 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 100.0% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Apache Elementary School, enrolling 6 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Apache Elementary School accounts for 50.0% of all Apache Elementary District (4178) student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Apache Elementary District (4178) a distant remainder — means Apache Elementary District (4178)-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.
Comparisons are relative to Apache Elementary District (4178)'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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