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Sylva, North Carolina - 1 schools
At $16,302 per pupil, Catamount School ranks #24 of 322 North Carolina districts by per-pupil spending (North Carolina districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Catamount School operates 1 public schools serving 59 students, placing it among the smallest districts in North Carolina. The school portfolio breaks down into 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 Jackson County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $16,302 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 33 of 322 North Carolina districts by per-pupil spending. See how North Carolina compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 17.5% local, 79.6% state, and 3.0% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 45.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 82.8% White, 1.6% Hispanic or Latino, 1.6% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Catamount School, enrolling 64 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Catamount School accounts for 100.0% of all Catamount School student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Catamount School a distant remainder — means Catamount School-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: middle. 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.
Catamount School chronic absenteeism rate is 45.3% — 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.
Catamount School has 1 school, including 1 middle. Total enrollment is 59 students.
How much does Catamount School spend per student?
Catamount School spends $16,302 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Catamount School?
Catamount School students are 82.8% White, 1.6% Hispanic or Latino, 1.6% African American, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.