At $20,864 per pupil, Pawnee Heights ranks #25 of 286 Kansas districts by per-pupil spending (Kansas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
140
Total Enrollment
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$20,864
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Pawnee Heights operates 2 public schools serving 140 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Kansas. 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 Pawnee County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $20,864 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 29 of 286 Kansas districts by per-pupil spending. See how Kansas compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 24.4% local, 69.9% state, and 5.7% 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 109:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 44.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 86.0% White, 14.1% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Pawnee Heights, enrolling 109 students (80% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Pawnee Heights Primary School, at 28 students, a 4x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Pawnee Heights accounts for 77.9% of all Pawnee Heights student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Pawnee Heights a distant remainder — means Pawnee Heights-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.
Pawnee Heights student-counselor ratio is 109:1 — 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.
Pawnee Heights chronic absenteeism rate is 44.0% — 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.