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Phoenix, Arizona - 2 schools
An equity score of 57/100 ranks Empower College Prep (91277) #81 of 437 districts in Arizona (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $12,708 per pupil, Empower College Prep (91277) ranks #196 of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending (Arizona districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,047
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$12,708
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Empower College Prep (91277) operates 2 public schools serving 1,047 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Arizona. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary, 1 high 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 Maricopa County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $12,708 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending. See how Arizona compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 5.8% local, 68.5% state, and 25.7% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 57/100, ranked #81 of 437 in Arizona against a state average of 38, 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 (14 AP courses district-wide), a 186.5:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 59.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 82.8% Hispanic or Latino, 11.2% African American, 3.5% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Empower College Prep, enrolling 697 students (65% of the district's total enrollment).
Empower College Prep accounts for 65.1% of all Empower College Prep (91277) student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Empower College Prep (91277) a distant remainder — means Empower College Prep (91277)-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. 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.
Empower College Prep (91277) has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 77.8% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility — including this one — receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Empower College Prep (91277) student-counselor ratio is 187:1 — 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.
Empower College Prep (91277) chronic absenteeism rate is 59.7% — 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.