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Harrisonville, Missouri - 6 schools
An equity score of 33/100 ranks Harrisonville R-Ix #334 of 432 districts in Missouri (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $11,529 per pupil, Harrisonville R-Ix ranks #312 of 549 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending (Missouri districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
2,207
Total Enrollment
6
Schools
$11,529
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Harrisonville R-Ix operates 6 public schools serving 2,207 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Missouri. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 elementary, 2 combined, 1 high, 1 middle 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 Cass County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $11,529 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 549 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending. See how Missouri compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 62.4% local, 30.0% state, and 7.6% 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 33/100, ranked #334 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 6 schools offering Advanced Placement (3 AP courses district-wide), a 447.9:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 18.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 81.8% White, 5.7% African American, 5.2% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Everett Wade Juvenile Ctr., with a diversity index of 54.0/100.
Its largest campus is Harrisonville High, enrolling 734 students (34% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Everett Wade Juvenile Ctr., at 10 students, a 73x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Harrisonville High accounts for 33.3% of all Harrisonville R-Ix student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Harrisonville R-Ix-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.
Harrisonville R-Ix school enrollment varies 73× across entities
Harrisonville R-Ix school enrollment ranges from 10 students (lowest) to 734 students (highest), a spread of 724 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.
Harrisonville R-Ix student-counselor ratio is 448:1 — 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.
Harrisonville R-Ix chronic absenteeism rate is 18.3% — 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 Harrisonville R-Ix is typically wider than the Harrisonville R-Ix-aggregate figure suggests.