At $16,524 per pupil, Moulton-Udell Comm School District ranks #23 of 327 Iowa districts by per-pupil spending (Iowa districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Moulton-Udell Comm School District operates 2 public schools serving 164 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Iowa. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 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 Appanoose County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $16,524 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 33 of 327 Iowa districts by per-pupil spending. See how Iowa compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 38.3% local, 51.8% state, and 10.0% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
a 146.6:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 22.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 96.5% White, 0.5% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Moulton Elementary School, enrolling 103 students (55% of the district's total enrollment).
Moulton Elementary School accounts for 54.8% of all Moulton-Udell Comm School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Moulton-Udell Comm School District a distant remainder — means Moulton-Udell 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.
Moulton-Udell Comm School District student-counselor ratio is 147:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Moulton-Udell Comm School District chronic absenteeism rate is 22.4% — 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 Moulton-Udell Comm School District is typically wider than the Moulton-Udell Comm School District-aggregate figure suggests.
Comparisons are relative to Moulton-Udell 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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