At $29,700 per pupil, Gordon Parks Elem. ranks #10 of 552 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending (Missouri districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Gordon Parks Elem. operates 1 public schools serving 130 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Missouri. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 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 Jackson County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $29,700 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 56 of 552 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending. See how Missouri compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 32.7% local, 41.9% state, and 25.4% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 49.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 54.2% African American, 26.7% Hispanic or Latino, 9.2% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Gordon Parks Elem., enrolling 131 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 12.3% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (130 to 114 students), and the student-teacher ratio held roughly steady, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $4,016,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 44.5% went to instruction, 47.6% to support services, and 1.9% to capital outlay, support-services-heavy relative to typical districts, reflecting spending on transportation, administration, or student services. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Gordon Parks Elem. accounts for 100.0% of all Gordon Parks Elem. student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Gordon Parks Elem. a distant remainder — means Gordon Parks Elem.-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.
Gordon Parks Elem. reports 100.0% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share is above 87.5%, so economic need is widespread across the measured student population. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Gordon Parks Elem. chronic absenteeism rate is 49.6% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Gordon Parks Elem. has 1 school, including 1 combined. Total enrollment is 130 students.
How much does Gordon Parks Elem. spend per student?
Gordon Parks Elem. spends $29,700 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Gordon Parks Elem.?
Gordon Parks Elem. students are 54.2% African American, 26.7% Hispanic or Latino, 9.2% White, 1.5% Asian, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.