At $14,702 per pupil, Morning Sun Comm School District ranks #51 of 327 Iowa districts by per-pupil spending (Iowa districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Morning Sun Comm School District operates 1 public schools serving 124 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Iowa. 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 Louisa County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,702 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 327 Iowa districts by per-pupil spending. See how Iowa compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 43.4% local, 46.8% state, and 9.7% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 198.3:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 16.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 98.3% White, 0.8% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Morning Sun Elementary School, enrolling 119 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Morning Sun Elementary School accounts for 96.0% of all Morning Sun Comm School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Morning Sun Comm School District a distant remainder — means Morning Sun Comm School District-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.
Morning Sun Comm School District student-counselor ratio is 198:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Morning Sun Comm School District chronic absenteeism rate is 16.8% — 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 Morning Sun Comm School District is typically wider than the Morning Sun Comm School District-aggregate figure suggests.
Comparisons are relative to Morning Sun Comm School District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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