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Bisbee, Arizona - 4 schools
An equity score of 44/100 ranks Bisbee Unified District (4169) #154 of 437 districts in Arizona (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $12,557 per pupil, Bisbee Unified District (4169) ranks #203 of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending (Arizona districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
685
Total Enrollment
4
Schools
$12,557
Per-Pupil Spending
High, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Bisbee Unified District (4169) operates 4 public schools serving 685 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Arizona. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high, 1 elementary, 1 middle, 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 Cochise County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $12,557 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 40.0% local, 27.8% state, and 32.2% 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 44/100, ranked #154 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.
a 276:1 student-counselor ratio, somewhat above the 250:1 ASCA recommendation, and 72.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 76.6% Hispanic or Latino, 14.6% White, 1.1% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Lowell School, with a diversity index of 47.8/100.
Its largest campus is Bisbee High School, enrolling 306 students (49% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Copper Credits, at 4 students, a 77x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Bisbee High School accounts for 44.7% of all Bisbee Unified District (4169) student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Bisbee Unified District (4169)-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Bisbee Unified District (4169) school enrollment varies 77× across entities
Bisbee Unified District (4169) school enrollment ranges from 4 students (lowest) to 306 students (highest), a spread of 302 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Bisbee Unified District (4169) has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 58.9% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Bisbee Unified District (4169) student-counselor ratio is 276:1 — near the typical range (US average ~408) — within the typical range for U.S. public districts
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 Variation between sub-units within Bisbee Unified District (4169) is typically wider than the Bisbee Unified District (4169)-aggregate figure suggests.
Bisbee Unified District (4169) chronic absenteeism rate is 72.4% — 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 Bisbee Unified District (4169)'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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