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Fort Mitchell, Kentucky - 3 schools
An equity score of 10/100 ranks Beechwood Independent #167 of 171 districts in Kentucky (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $10,835 per pupil, Beechwood Independent ranks #170 of 171 Kentucky districts by per-pupil spending (Kentucky districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,501
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$10,835
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Beechwood Independent operates 3 public schools serving 1,501 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Kentucky. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 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 Kenton County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $10,835 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 18 of 171 Kentucky districts by per-pupil spending. See how Kentucky compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 45.6% local, 49.4% state, and 5.0% 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 10/100, ranked #167 of 171 in Kentucky against a state average of 50, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 3 schools offering Advanced Placement (16 AP courses district-wide), a 385.5:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 6.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 83.7% White, 8.1% Hispanic or Latino, 2.4% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Beechwood Elementary School, with a diversity index of 29.8/100.
Its largest campus is Beechwood Elementary School, enrolling 780 students (50% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Guardian Angel, at 30 students, a 26x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Beechwood Elementary School accounts for 49.6% of all Beechwood Independent student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Beechwood Independent a distant remainder — means Beechwood Independent-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.
Beechwood Independent school enrollment varies 26× across entities
Beechwood Independent school enrollment ranges from 30 students (lowest) to 780 students (highest), a spread of 750 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Beechwood Independent student-counselor ratio is 386:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Beechwood Independent chronic absenteeism rate is 6.9% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.