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Mt Vernon, Arkansas - 2 schools
An equity score of 28/100 ranks Mt. Vernon/Enola School Dist. #217 of 250 districts in Arkansas (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $10,304 per pupil, Mt. Vernon/Enola School Dist. ranks #215 of 255 Arkansas districts by per-pupil spending (Arkansas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Mt. Vernon/Enola School Dist. operates 2 public schools serving 558 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Arkansas. 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 Faulkner County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $10,304 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 255 Arkansas districts by per-pupil spending. See how Arkansas compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 32.5% local, 52.6% state, and 14.9% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 28/100, ranked #217 of 250 in Arkansas against a state average of 50, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 2 schools offering Advanced Placement (4 AP courses district-wide), a 341.5:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 14.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 94.3% White, 1.9% Hispanic or Latino, 1.6% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Mt. Vernon/Enola Elem. School, enrolling 293 students (56% of the district's total enrollment).
Mt. Vernon/Enola Elem. School accounts for 52.5% of all Mt. Vernon/Enola School Dist. student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Mt. Vernon/Enola School Dist. a distant remainder — means Mt. Vernon/Enola School Dist.-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.
Mt. Vernon/Enola School Dist. has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 53.4% 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.
Mt. Vernon/Enola School Dist. student-counselor ratio is 342:1 — near the typical range (US average ~408) — within the typical range for U.S. public districts
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 Variation between sub-units within Mt. Vernon/Enola School Dist. is typically wider than the Mt. Vernon/Enola School Dist.-aggregate figure suggests.
Mt. Vernon/Enola School Dist. chronic absenteeism rate is 14.9% — 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.
Comparisons are relative to Mt. Vernon/Enola School Dist.'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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