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Otis, Colorado - 3 schools
At $17,024 per pupil, Lone Star School District No. 101 ranks #53 of 180 Colorado districts by per-pupil spending (Colorado districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
124
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$17,024
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Lone Star School District No. 101 operates 3 public schools serving 124 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Colorado. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary, 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 Washington County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,024 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 180 Colorado districts by per-pupil spending. See how Colorado compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 28.2% local, 59.6% state, and 12.2% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 14.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 83.3% White, 16.7% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Lone Star Undivided High School, with a diversity index of 39.7/100.
Its largest campus is Lone Star Elementary School, enrolling 56 students (47% of the district's total enrollment).
Lone Star Elementary School accounts for 45.2% of all Lone Star School District No. 101 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Lone Star School District No. 101 a distant remainder — means Lone Star School District No. 101-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. 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.
Lone Star School District No. 101 school enrollment varies 2.9× across entities
Lone Star School District No. 101 school enrollment ranges from 19 students (lowest) to 56 students (highest), a spread of 37 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Lone Star School District No. 101 chronic absenteeism rate is 14.4% — low (typically associated with lower-than-average attendance disruption; districts in this range often have attendance interventions, robust transportation, or smaller catchments that reduce barriers)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Comparisons are relative to Lone Star School District No. 101's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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