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Apache Junction, Arizona - 1 schools
At $10,701 per pupil, Imagine Superstition Middle Inc. (90160) ranks #328 of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending (Arizona districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
153
Total Enrollment
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Schools
$10,701
Per-Pupil Spending
Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Imagine Superstition Middle Inc. (90160) operates 1 public schools serving 153 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Arizona. The school portfolio breaks down into 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 Pinal County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $10,701 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending. See how Arizona compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 0.2% local, 83.2% state, and 16.6% 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 158:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 53.8% White, 36.1% Hispanic or Latino, 1.9% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Imagine Superstition Middle, enrolling 158 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Imagine Superstition Middle accounts for 100.0% of all Imagine Superstition Middle Inc. (90160) student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Imagine Superstition Middle Inc. (90160) a distant remainder — means Imagine Superstition Middle Inc. (90160)-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: middle. 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.
Imagine Superstition Middle Inc. (90160) has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 52.9% 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). Areas above 75% eligibility receive concentration grants 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.
Imagine Superstition Middle Inc. (90160) student-counselor ratio is 158:1 — 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.
Comparisons are relative to Imagine Superstition Middle Inc. (90160)'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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