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Afton, Iowa - 2 schools
An equity score of 87/100 ranks East Union Comm School District #8 of 303 districts in Iowa (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $15,915 per pupil, East Union Comm School District ranks #15 of 327 Iowa districts by per-pupil spending (Iowa districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
495
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$15,915
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
East Union Comm School District operates 2 public schools serving 495 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Iowa. 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 Union County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $15,915 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 33 of 327 Iowa districts by per-pupil spending. See how Iowa compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 41.2% local, 45.6% state, and 13.3% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 87/100, ranked #8 of 303 in Iowa against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 2 schools offering Advanced Placement (1 AP courses district-wide), a 221.5:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 26.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 94.1% White, 3.8% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is East Union Middle-High School, enrolling 242 students (55% of the district's total enrollment).
East Union Middle-High School accounts for 48.9% of all East Union Comm School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of East Union Comm School District a distant remainder — means East Union Comm School District-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
East Union Comm School District student-counselor ratio is 222:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
East Union Comm School District chronic absenteeism rate is 26.3% — 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 East Union Comm School District is typically wider than the East Union Comm School District-aggregate figure suggests.
Comparisons are relative to East Union Comm School District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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