At $18,020 per pupil, Cedar Vale ranks #53 of 286 Kansas districts by per-pupil spending (Kansas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
149
Total Enrollment
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Schools
$18,020
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Cedar Vale operates 2 public schools serving 149 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Kansas. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 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 Chautauqua County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $18,020 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 286 Kansas districts by per-pupil spending. See how Kansas compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 12.6% local, 79.4% state, and 8.1% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
a 96.5:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 17.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 64.3% White, 9.4% Hispanic or Latino, 1.6% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Cedar Vale Elem, enrolling 65 students (51% of the district's total enrollment).
Cedar Vale Elem accounts for 43.6% of all Cedar Vale student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Cedar Vale-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.
Cedar Vale student-counselor ratio is 97:1 — 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.
Cedar Vale chronic absenteeism rate is 17.3% — 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 Cedar Vale is typically wider than the Cedar Vale-aggregate figure suggests.