At $20,158 per pupil, Cody-Kilgore Public Schs ranks #68 of 244 Nebraska districts by per-pupil spending (Nebraska districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
158
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$20,158
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Cody-Kilgore Public Schs operates 3 public schools serving 158 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Nebraska. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 high, 1 middle 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 Cherry County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $20,158 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 244 Nebraska districts by per-pupil spending. See how Nebraska compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 47.9% local, 37.2% state, and 14.9% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 50.7:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 21.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 76.6% White, 3.7% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Cody-Kilgore High School, with a diversity index of 49.6/100.
Cody-Kilgore Elementary School accounts for 46.2% of all Cody-Kilgore Public Schs student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Cody-Kilgore Public Schs a distant remainder — means Cody-Kilgore Public Schs-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.
Cody-Kilgore Public Schs school enrollment varies 2.3× across entities
Cody-Kilgore Public Schs school enrollment ranges from 32 students (lowest) to 73 students (highest), a spread of 41 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Cody-Kilgore Public Schs student-counselor ratio is 51:1 — 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.
Cody-Kilgore Public Schs chronic absenteeism rate is 21.5% — 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 Cody-Kilgore Public Schs is typically wider than the Cody-Kilgore Public Schs-aggregate figure suggests.