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San Luis, Colorado - 1 schools
At $19,005 per pupil, Centennial School District No. R-1 ranks #37 of 180 Colorado districts by per-pupil spending (Colorado districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Centennial School District No. R-1 operates 1 public schools serving 193 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Colorado. The school portfolio breaks down into 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 Costilla County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $19,005 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 180 Colorado districts by per-pupil spending. See how Colorado compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 35.2% local, 44.3% state, and 20.5% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 1 schools offering Advanced Placement (1 AP courses district-wide), and 80.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 81.7% Hispanic or Latino, 17.7% White, 0.5% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Centennial School, enrolling 186 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Centennial School accounts for 96.4% of all Centennial School District No. R-1 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Centennial School District No. R-1 a distant remainder — means Centennial School District No. R-1-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.
Centennial School District No. R-1 has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 84.5% 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 — including this one — 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.
Centennial School District No. R-1 chronic absenteeism rate is 80.6% — 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 Centennial School District No. R-1's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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How many schools are in Centennial School District No. R-1?
Centennial School District No. R-1 has 1 school, including 1 combined. Total enrollment is 193 students.
How much does Centennial School District No. R-1 spend per student?
Centennial School District No. R-1 spends $19,005 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Centennial School District No. R-1?
Centennial School District No. R-1 students are 81.7% Hispanic or Latino, 17.7% White, 0.5% African American, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.