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Kirksville, Missouri - 4 schools
An equity score of 47/100 ranks Kirksville R-Iii #240 of 432 districts in Missouri (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $11,249 per pupil, Kirksville R-Iii ranks #334 of 549 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending (Missouri districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
2,506
Total Enrollment
4
Schools
$11,249
Per-Pupil Spending
High, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Kirksville R-Iii operates 4 public schools serving 2,506 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Missouri. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high, 1 combined, 1 elementary, 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 Adair County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $11,249 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 48.9% local, 30.4% state, and 20.7% 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 47/100, ranked #240 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.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 4 schools offering Advanced Placement (3 AP courses district-wide), a 430.4:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 23.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 78.1% White, 11.3% African American, 4.6% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Kirksville Primary, with a diversity index of 45.1/100.
Its largest campus is Kirksville Sr. High, enrolling 791 students (33% of the district's total enrollment).
Kirksville Sr. High accounts for 31.6% of all Kirksville R-Iii student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Kirksville R-Iii-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Kirksville R-Iii student-counselor ratio is 430:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Kirksville R-Iii chronic absenteeism rate is 23.2% — 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 Kirksville R-Iii is typically wider than the Kirksville R-Iii-aggregate figure suggests.