At $42,343 per pupil, Corona Municipal Schools ranks #4 of 143 New Mexico districts by per-pupil spending (New Mexico districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Corona Municipal Schools operates 2 public schools serving 70 students, placing it among the smallest districts in New Mexico. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 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 Lincoln County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $42,343 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 15 of 143 New Mexico districts by per-pupil spending. See how New Mexico compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 12.8% local, 84.3% state, and 3.0% 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 2.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 63.5% White, 32.0% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Corona Elementary, enrolling 62 students (61% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 14.3% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (70 to 80 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 0.8 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $3,165,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 53.3% went to instruction, 38.3% to support services, and 6.4% 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.
Corona Elementary accounts for 60.8% of all Corona Municipal Schools student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Corona Municipal Schools a distant remainder — means Corona Municipal Schools-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. 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.
Corona Municipal Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 2.9% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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.