At $18,950 per pupil, Hope Leadership Academy ranks #61 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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$18,950
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Hope Leadership Academy operates 1 public schools serving 101 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 Jackson County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $18,950 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 552 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending. See how Missouri compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 14.9% local, 56.3% state, and 28.8% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
a 108:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 53.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 93.5% African American, 4.6% Hispanic or Latino, 1.9% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Hope Leadership Academy, enrolling 108 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Hope Leadership Academy accounts for 100.0% of all Hope Leadership Academy student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Hope Leadership Academy a distant remainder — means Hope Leadership Academy-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.
Hope Leadership Academy reports 97.0% 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.
Hope Leadership Academy student-counselor ratio is 108:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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.
Hope Leadership Academy chronic absenteeism rate is 53.7% — 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.
Hope Leadership Academy has 1 school, including 1 elementary. Total enrollment is 101 students.
How much does Hope Leadership Academy spend per student?
Hope Leadership Academy spends $18,950 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Hope Leadership Academy?
Hope Leadership Academy students are 93.5% African American, 4.6% Hispanic or Latino, 1.9% White, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.