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Humansville, Missouri - 3 schools
An equity score of 51/100 ranks Humansville R-Iv #211 of 432 districts in Missouri (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $10,739 per pupil, Humansville R-Iv ranks #392 of 549 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending (Missouri districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
368
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$10,739
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Humansville R-Iv operates 3 public schools serving 368 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Missouri. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 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 Polk County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $10,739 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 32.9% local, 41.0% state, and 26.1% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 51/100, ranked #211 of 432 in Missouri against a state average of 50, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 115:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 17.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 93.3% White, 1.4% Hispanic or Latino, 1.3% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Humansville Elem., with a diversity index of 15.6/100.
Its largest campus is Humansville Elem., enrolling 156 students (45% of the district's total enrollment).
Humansville Elem. accounts for 42.4% of all Humansville R-Iv student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Humansville R-Iv-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
Humansville R-Iv student-counselor ratio is 115:1 — 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.
Humansville R-Iv chronic absenteeism rate is 17.1% — 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 Humansville R-Iv is typically wider than the Humansville R-Iv-aggregate figure suggests.