At $19,916 per pupil, Elida Municipal Schools ranks #47 of 143 New Mexico districts by per-pupil spending (New Mexico districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
178
Total Enrollment
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Schools
$19,916
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Elida Municipal Schools operates 2 public schools serving 178 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 Roosevelt County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $19,916 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half 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 5.6% local, 87.6% state, and 6.8% 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 33.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 67.1% White, 23.3% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Elida High, enrolling 73 students (50% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 17.4% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (178 to 147 students), and the student-teacher ratio tightened by 2.2 students per teacher as staffing held steadier than enrollment, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $3,877,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 54.2% went to instruction, 32.9% to support services, and 8% 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.
Elida High accounts for 41.0% of all Elida Municipal Schools student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Elida 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. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.
Elida Municipal Schools reports 50.6% 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.
Elida Municipal Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 33.6% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.