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Centerville, Missouri - 1 schools
At $20,479 per pupil, Centerville R-I ranks #24 of 549 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending (Missouri districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
32
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$20,479
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Centerville R-I operates 1 public schools serving 32 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Missouri. 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 Reynolds County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $20,479 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 55 of 549 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending. See how Missouri compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 41.8% local, 29.4% state, and 28.7% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 25.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 100.0% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Centerville Elem., enrolling 28 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Centerville Elem. accounts for 87.5% of all Centerville R-I student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Centerville R-I a distant remainder — means Centerville R-I-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.
Centerville R-I has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 100.0% 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). Eligibility here is a supermajority of the population — well past the 75% concentration-grant threshold that unlocks extra funding 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.
Centerville R-I chronic absenteeism rate is 25.0% — 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 Centerville R-I is typically wider than the Centerville R-I-aggregate figure suggests.