At $18,474 per pupil, Arnold Public Schools ranks #101 of 244 Nebraska districts by per-pupil spending (Nebraska districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
192
Total Enrollment
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$18,474
Per-Pupil Spending
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Arnold Public Schools operates 2 public schools serving 192 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Nebraska. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 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 Custer County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $18,474 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 244 Nebraska districts by per-pupil spending. See how Nebraska compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 78.3% local, 15.3% state, and 6.5% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 200:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 21.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 91.3% White, 7.1% Hispanic or Latino, 0.4% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Arnold Elementary School, enrolling 121 students (61% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 2.1% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (192 to 196 students), while the student-teacher ratio held roughly steady, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $3,786,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 56.2% went to instruction, 33.8% to support services, and 3.1% to capital outlay, a fairly typical instruction/support/capital split for a public school district. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Arnold Elementary School accounts for 60.5% of all Arnold Public Schools student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Arnold Public Schools a distant remainder — means Arnold Public Schools-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Arnold Public Schools student-counselor ratio is 200:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Arnold Public Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 21.8% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
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 Variation between sub-units within Arnold Public Schools is typically wider than the Arnold Public Schools-aggregate figure suggests.
Arnold Public Schools has 2 schools, including 2 combined. Total enrollment is 192 students.
How much does Arnold Public Schools spend per student?
Arnold Public Schools spends $18,474 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Arnold Public Schools?
Arnold Public Schools students are 91.3% White, 7.1% Hispanic or Latino, 0.4% African American, averaged across 2 schools. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.