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Bloomington, Indiana - 1 schools
At $5,376 per pupil, Excel Center - Bloomington ranks #394 of 406 Indiana districts by per-pupil spending (Indiana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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$5,376
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Excel Center - Bloomington operates 1 public schools serving 124 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Indiana. The school portfolio breaks down into 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 Monroe County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $5,376 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 41 of 406 Indiana districts by per-pupil spending. See how Indiana compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 1.6% local, 89.8% state, and 8.6% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
. Demographically, the student body averages 65.0% White, 15.4% African American, 6.8% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Excel Center - Bloomington, enrolling 117 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Excel Center - Bloomington accounts for 94.4% of all Excel Center - Bloomington student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Excel Center - Bloomington a distant remainder — means Excel Center - Bloomington-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Excel Center - Bloomington has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 54.0% 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 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.