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Conception Jct, Missouri - 2 schools
At $16,314 per pupil, Jefferson C-123 ranks #74 of 549 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending (Missouri districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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$16,314
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Jefferson C-123 operates 2 public schools serving 139 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Missouri. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined 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 Nodaway County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $16,314 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 549 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending. See how Missouri compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 50.2% local, 37.3% state, and 12.5% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 139:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 98.5% White, 1.5% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Jefferson Elem., enrolling 83 students (60% of the district's total enrollment).
Jefferson Elem. accounts for 59.7% of all Jefferson C-123 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Jefferson C-123 a distant remainder — means Jefferson C-123-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.
Jefferson C-123 student-counselor ratio is 139:1 — 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.