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Farmington, Missouri - 8 schools
An equity score of 22/100 ranks Farmington R-Vii #403 of 432 districts in Missouri (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $9,819 per pupil, Farmington R-Vii ranks #505 of 549 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending (Missouri districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
3,925
Total Enrollment
8
Schools
$9,819
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Farmington R-Vii operates 8 public schools serving 3,925 students, placing it among the smaller districts in Missouri. The school portfolio breaks down into 4 elementary, 2 combined, 1 high, 1 middle schools, a compact enough portfolio that families can compare every campus directly before they move, rent, or enrol. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in St. Francois County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $9,819 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 55 of 549 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending. See how Missouri compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 51.3% local, 32.7% state, and 16.1% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 22/100, ranked #403 of 432 in Missouri against a state average of 50, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 8 schools offering Advanced Placement (1 AP courses district-wide), a 368.6:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 19.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 93.6% White, 2.4% Hispanic or Latino, 1.4% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Truman Learning Center, with a diversity index of 22.7/100.
Its largest campus is Farmington Sr. High, enrolling 1,354 students (34% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Juvenile Detention Ctr., at 9 students, a 150x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Farmington Sr. High accounts for 34.4% of all Farmington R-Vii student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Farmington R-Vii-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.
Farmington R-Vii school enrollment varies 150× across entities
Farmington R-Vii school enrollment ranges from 9 students (lowest) to 1,354 students (highest), a spread of 1,345 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Farmington R-Vii student-counselor ratio is 369:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Farmington R-Vii chronic absenteeism rate is 19.2% — 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 Farmington R-Vii is typically wider than the Farmington R-Vii-aggregate figure suggests.