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Clyde, Kansas - 3 schools
An equity score of 77/100 ranks Clifton-Clyde #21 of 250 districts in Kansas (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $18,353 per pupil, Clifton-Clyde ranks #41 of 285 Kansas districts by per-pupil spending (Kansas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
304
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$18,353
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Clifton-Clyde operates 3 public schools serving 304 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Kansas. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary, 1 high, 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 Cloud County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $18,353 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 285 Kansas districts by per-pupil spending. See how Kansas compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 25.2% local, 66.9% state, and 7.9% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 77/100, ranked #21 of 250 in Kansas against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 730:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 24.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 96.1% White, 1.8% Hispanic or Latino, 0.7% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Clifton-Clyde Grade School K-3, with a diversity index of 10.8/100.
Its largest campus is Clifton-Clyde Middle School, enrolling 116 students (37% of the district's total enrollment).
Clifton-Clyde Middle School accounts for 37.4% of all Clifton-Clyde student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Clifton-Clyde-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.
Clifton-Clyde student-counselor ratio is 730:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 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.
Clifton-Clyde chronic absenteeism rate is 24.3% — 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 Clifton-Clyde is typically wider than the Clifton-Clyde-aggregate figure suggests.