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Willcox, Arizona - 1 schools
At $19,444 per pupil, Bonita Elementary District (4224) ranks #73 of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending (Arizona districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
103
Total Enrollment
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$19,444
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Bonita Elementary District (4224) operates 1 public schools serving 103 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Arizona. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary 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 Graham County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $19,444 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 44.7% local, 46.8% state, and 8.5% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 94:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 24.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 61.7% Hispanic or Latino, 38.3% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Bonita Elementary School, enrolling 94 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Bonita Elementary School accounts for 91.3% of all Bonita Elementary District (4224) student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Bonita Elementary District (4224) a distant remainder — means Bonita Elementary District (4224)-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. 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.
Bonita Elementary District (4224) student-counselor ratio is 94:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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.
Bonita Elementary District (4224) chronic absenteeism rate is 24.5% — 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 Bonita Elementary District (4224) is typically wider than the Bonita Elementary District (4224)-aggregate figure suggests.
Comparisons are relative to Bonita Elementary District (4224)'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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