At $14,430 per pupil, Constellation Schools: Westpark Community Middle ranks #531 of 981 Ohio districts by per-pupil spending (Ohio districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Constellation Schools: Westpark Community Middle operates 1 public schools serving 149 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Ohio. 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 Cuyahoga County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,430 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 981 Ohio districts by per-pupil spending. See how Ohio compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 0.5% local, 72.0% state, and 27.4% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 47.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 38.8% White, 37.6% Hispanic or Latino, 11.2% African American across the district's schools.
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 4.7% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (149 to 142 students), and the student-teacher ratio widened by 42.0 students per teacher despite the decline, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $2,167,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 49% went to instruction, 47.9% to support services, and 0.8% to capital outlay, support-services-heavy relative to typical districts, reflecting spending on transportation, administration, or student services. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Constellation Schools: Westpark Community Middle accounts for 100.0% of all Constellation Schools: Westpark Community Middle student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Constellation Schools: Westpark Community Middle a distant remainder — means Constellation Schools: Westpark Community Middle-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: elementary. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Constellation Schools: Westpark Community Middle reports 51.0% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Constellation Schools: Westpark Community Middle chronic absenteeism rate is 47.1% — 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 Constellation Schools: Westpark Community Middle's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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