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St Louis, Missouri - 2 schools
At $27,375 per pupil, Hawthorn Leadership Schl Girls ranks #5 of 549 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending (Missouri districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
112
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$27,375
Per-Pupil Spending
High, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Hawthorn Leadership Schl Girls operates 2 public schools serving 112 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Missouri. The school portfolio breaks down into 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 St. Louis City.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $27,375 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 55 of 549 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending. See how Missouri compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 44.7% local, 24.8% state, and 30.5% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 62.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Use the school table below to drill into any individual campus for its own demographic and resource profile.
Its largest campus is Hawthorn High School, enrolling 59 students (53% of the district's total enrollment).
Hawthorn High School accounts for 52.7% of all Hawthorn Leadership Schl Girls student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Hawthorn Leadership Schl Girls a distant remainder — means Hawthorn Leadership Schl Girls-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.
Hawthorn Leadership Schl Girls has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 94.6% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Eligibility here is a supermajority of the population — well past the 75% concentration-grant threshold that unlocks extra funding on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Hawthorn Leadership Schl Girls chronic absenteeism rate is 62.8% — 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.
Comparisons are relative to Hawthorn Leadership Schl Girls's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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