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Cook, Washington - 2 schools
At $40,852 per pupil, Mill a School District ranks #12 of 309 Washington districts by per-pupil spending (Washington districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
67
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$40,852
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Mill a School District operates 2 public schools serving 67 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Washington. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary, 1 high 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 Skamania County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $40,852 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 31 of 309 Washington districts by per-pupil spending. See how Washington compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 3.4% local, 87.2% state, and 9.4% 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 10.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 84.7% White, 9.8% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Mill a Elementary School, enrolling 43 students (63% of the district's total enrollment).
Mill a Elementary School accounts for 63.2% of all Mill a School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Mill a School District a distant remainder — means Mill a School District-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.
Mill a School District chronic absenteeism rate is 10.7% — 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.