At $29,492 per pupil, Mcnary Elementary District (4163) ranks #18 of 633 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending (Arizona districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Mcnary Elementary District (4163) operates 1 public schools serving 124 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Arizona. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 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 Apache County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $29,492 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 64 of 633 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending. See how Arizona compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 2.2% local, 43.2% state, and 54.6% federal, an unusually federal-heavy mix, typically a marker of concentrated Title I eligibility or a small district reliant on federal impact-aid programs.
and 55.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 1.1% White, 1.1% African American, 1.1% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Mcnary Elementary School, enrolling 183 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Mcnary Elementary School accounts for 100.0% of all Mcnary Elementary District (4163) student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Mcnary Elementary District (4163) a distant remainder — means Mcnary Elementary District (4163)-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Mcnary Elementary District (4163) reports 87.9% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share is above 87.5%, so economic need is widespread across the measured student population. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Mcnary Elementary District (4163) chronic absenteeism rate is 55.2% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Comparisons are relative to Mcnary Elementary District (4163)'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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