At $18,747 per pupil, North Park School District R-1 ranks #45 of 180 Colorado districts by per-pupil spending (Colorado districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
186
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$18,747
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
North Park School District R-1 operates 1 public schools serving 186 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Colorado. 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 Jackson County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $18,747 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 180 Colorado districts by per-pupil spending. See how Colorado compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 63.1% local, 27.9% state, and 9.0% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
and 54.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 79.9% White, 20.1% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is North Park School, enrolling 144 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
North Park School accounts for 77.4% of all North Park School District R-1 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of North Park School District R-1 a distant remainder — means North Park School District R-1-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.
North Park School District R-1 chronic absenteeism rate is 54.2% — 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 North Park School District R-1's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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