An equity score of 50/100 ranks Ash Fork Joint Unified District (4471) #123 of 437 districts in Arizona (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $13,893 per pupil, Ash Fork Joint Unified District (4471) ranks #168 of 633 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending (Arizona districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
293
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$13,893
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Ash Fork Joint Unified District (4471) operates 3 public schools serving 293 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Arizona. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 high, 1 middle 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 Yavapai County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $13,893 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 633 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending. See how Arizona compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 47.9% local, 38.0% state, and 14.2% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 50/100, ranked #123 of 437 in Arizona against a state average of 38, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 515:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, . Demographically, the student body averages 49.1% White, 49.1% Hispanic or Latino, 0.3% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Ash Fork High School, with a diversity index of 53.8/100.
Its largest campus is Ash Fork Elementary School, enrolling 124 students (42% of the district's total enrollment).
Ash Fork Elementary School accounts for 42.3% of all Ash Fork Joint Unified District (4471) student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Ash Fork Joint Unified District (4471)-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. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.
Ash Fork Joint Unified District (4471) reports 66.6% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Ash Fork Joint Unified District (4471) student-counselor ratio is 515:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 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 Ash Fork Joint Unified District (4471)'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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