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Mesa, Arizona - 1 schools
At $12,261 per pupil, Gem Charter School Inc. (6372) ranks #220 of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending (Arizona districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
76
Total Enrollment
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Schools
$12,261
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Gem Charter School Inc. (6372) operates 1 public schools serving 76 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Arizona. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary 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 $12,261 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 26.1% local, 65.8% state, and 8.1% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
. Use the school table below to drill into any individual campus for its own demographic and resource profile.
Its largest campus is Gem Charter School, enrolling 76 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Gem Charter School accounts for 100.0% of all Gem Charter School Inc. (6372) student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Gem Charter School Inc. (6372) a distant remainder — means Gem Charter School Inc. (6372)-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.
Comparisons are relative to Gem Charter School Inc. (6372)'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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