At $12,694 per pupil, Gilman City R-Iv ranks #300 of 552 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending (Missouri districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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$12,694
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Gilman City R-Iv operates 2 public schools serving 173 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 Harrison County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $12,694 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 46.2% local, 28.1% state, and 25.7% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 312:1 student-counselor ratio, somewhat above the 250:1 ASCA recommendation, and 4.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 97.3% White, 0.8% Asian, 0.5% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Gilman City Elem., enrolling 96 students (62% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 5.8% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (173 to 163 students), and the student-teacher ratio held roughly steady, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $2,347,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 57.5% went to instruction, 29.7% to support services, and 2.1% 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.
Gilman City Elem. accounts for 55.5% of all Gilman City R-Iv student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Gilman City R-Iv a distant remainder — means Gilman City R-Iv-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. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Gilman City R-Iv student-counselor ratio is 312:1 — near the typical range (US average ~408) — within the typical range for U.S. public districts
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 Variation between sub-units within Gilman City R-Iv is typically wider than the Gilman City R-Iv-aggregate figure suggests.
Gilman City R-Iv chronic absenteeism rate is 4.6% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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.