At $12,576 per pupil, Everton R-Iii ranks #303 of 552 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending (Missouri districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Everton R-Iii operates 2 public schools serving 172 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Missouri. 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 Dade County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $12,576 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 552 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending. See how Missouri compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 43.3% local, 34.0% state, and 22.7% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 145:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 20.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 95.2% White, 1.4% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Everton Elem., enrolling 73 students (50% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 15.7% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (172 to 145 students), and the student-teacher ratio tightened by 1.4 students per teacher as staffing held steadier than enrollment, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $2,332,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 55% went to instruction, 33.3% to support services, and 3.1% 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.
Everton Elem. accounts for 42.4% of all Everton R-Iii student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Everton R-Iii-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.
The reported share is above 87.5%, so economic need is widespread across the measured student population. 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.
Everton R-Iii student-counselor ratio is 145:1 — 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.
Everton R-Iii chronic absenteeism rate is 20.8% — 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 Everton R-Iii is typically wider than the Everton R-Iii-aggregate figure suggests.