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Miami, Arizona - 3 schools
933
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
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Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Miami Unified District (4211) operates 3 public schools serving 933 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Arizona. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined, 1 elementary 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 Gila County.
The funding mix is 28.6% local, 51.8% state, and 19.6% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 69.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 53.4% Hispanic or Latino, 35.2% White, 1.4% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Miami Junior Senior High School, with a diversity index of 60.0/100.
Miami Junior Senior High School accounts for 45.9% of all Miami Unified District (4211) student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Miami Unified District (4211) a distant remainder — means Miami Unified District (4211)-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.
Miami Unified District (4211) 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.
Miami Unified District (4211) chronic absenteeism rate is 69.7% — 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 Miami Unified District (4211)'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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