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Arlington, Arizona - 1 schools
An equity score of 36/100 ranks Arlington Elementary District (4274) #215 of 437 districts in Arizona (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $12,241 per pupil, Arlington Elementary District (4274) ranks #221 of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending (Arizona districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Arlington Elementary District (4274) operates 1 public schools serving 279 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Arizona. The school portfolio breaks down into 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 $12,241 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 69.1% local, 7.9% state, and 22.9% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 36/100, ranked #215 of 437 in Arizona against a state average of 38, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
and 56.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 65.0% Hispanic or Latino, 33.3% White, 0.3% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Arlington Elementary School, enrolling 297 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Arlington Elementary School accounts for 100.0% of all Arlington Elementary District (4274) student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Arlington Elementary District (4274) a distant remainder — means Arlington Elementary District (4274)-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
Arlington Elementary District (4274) chronic absenteeism rate is 56.9% — 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 Arlington Elementary District (4274)'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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