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Fairfax, Missouri - 2 schools
At $13,934 per pupil, Fairfax R-Iii ranks #140 of 549 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending (Missouri districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
144
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$13,934
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Fairfax R-Iii operates 2 public schools serving 144 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 Atchison County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $13,934 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 549 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending. See how Missouri compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 61.8% local, 18.9% state, and 19.3% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 116.5:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 19.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 95.5% White, 3.0% Hispanic or Latino, 0.8% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Fairfax High, enrolling 68 students (51% of the district's total enrollment).
Fairfax High accounts for 47.2% of all Fairfax R-Iii student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Fairfax R-Iii a distant remainder — means Fairfax R-Iii-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.
Fairfax R-Iii student-counselor ratio is 117:1 — 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.
Fairfax R-Iii chronic absenteeism rate is 19.4% — 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 Fairfax R-Iii is typically wider than the Fairfax R-Iii-aggregate figure suggests.