At $20,132 per pupil, High Point R-Iii ranks #45 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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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
High Point R-Iii operates 1 public schools serving 76 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Missouri. 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 Moniteau County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $20,132 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 47.9% local, 30.1% state, and 22.0% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 207.5:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 18.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 98.8% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is High Point Elem., enrolling 83 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
High Point Elem. accounts for 100.0% of all High Point R-Iii student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of High Point R-Iii a distant remainder — means High Point R-Iii-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: elementary. 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.
High Point R-Iii student-counselor ratio is 208:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
High Point R-Iii chronic absenteeism rate is 18.1% — 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 High Point R-Iii is typically wider than the High Point R-Iii-aggregate figure suggests.