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Clarkdale, Arizona - 1 schools
An equity score of 21/100 ranks Clarkdale-Jerome Elementary District (4486) #351 of 437 districts in Arizona (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $9,665 per pupil, Clarkdale-Jerome Elementary District (4486) ranks #423 of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending (Arizona districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Clarkdale-Jerome Elementary District (4486) operates 1 public schools serving 475 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Arizona. 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 Yavapai County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $9,665 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending. See how Arizona compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 35.7% local, 44.8% state, and 19.5% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 21/100, ranked #351 of 437 in Arizona against a state average of 38, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 459:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 16.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 60.1% White, 23.7% Hispanic or Latino, 0.4% African American across the district's schools.
Clarkdale-Jerome Elementary School accounts for 96.6% of all Clarkdale-Jerome Elementary District (4486) student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Clarkdale-Jerome Elementary District (4486) a distant remainder — means Clarkdale-Jerome Elementary District (4486)-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.
Clarkdale-Jerome Elementary District (4486) student-counselor ratio is 459:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Clarkdale-Jerome Elementary District (4486) chronic absenteeism rate is 16.1% — 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 Clarkdale-Jerome Elementary District (4486) is typically wider than the Clarkdale-Jerome Elementary District (4486)-aggregate figure suggests.
Comparisons are relative to Clarkdale-Jerome Elementary District (4486)'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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