At $14,384 per pupil, Delta C-7 ranks #180 of 552 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending (Missouri districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
159
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$14,384
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Delta C-7 operates 2 public schools serving 159 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Missouri. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 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 Pemiscot County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,384 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 552 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending. See how Missouri compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 35.1% local, 44.5% state, and 20.4% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 98:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 26.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 77.6% White, 10.1% African American, 4.6% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Delta C-7 High, enrolling 99 students (51% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 8.8% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (159 to 173 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 0.7 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $2,599,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 52% went to instruction, 33.5% to support services, and 9.2% to capital outlay, a fairly typical instruction/support/capital split for a public school district. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Delta C-7 High accounts for 50.5% of all Delta C-7 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Delta C-7 a distant remainder — means Delta C-7-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.
Delta C-7 student-counselor ratio is 98:1 — 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.
Delta C-7 chronic absenteeism rate is 26.9% — 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 Delta C-7 is typically wider than the Delta C-7-aggregate figure suggests.