At $18,093 per pupil, Pennsylvania Steam Academy Cs ranks #332 of 672 Pennsylvania districts by per-pupil spending (Pennsylvania districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Pennsylvania Steam Academy Cs operates 1 public schools serving 193 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Pennsylvania. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary 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 Dauphin County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $18,093 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 672 Pennsylvania districts by per-pupil spending. See how Pennsylvania compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 92.5% local, 0.2% state, and 7.3% 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 15.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 66.9% African American, 21.9% Hispanic or Latino, 7.2% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Pennsylvania Steam Academy Cs, enrolling 360 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Pennsylvania Steam Academy Cs accounts for 100.0% of all Pennsylvania Steam Academy Cs student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Pennsylvania Steam Academy Cs a distant remainder — means Pennsylvania Steam Academy Cs-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: elementary. 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.
Pennsylvania Steam Academy Cs reports 61.1% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Pennsylvania Steam Academy Cs chronic absenteeism rate is 15.0% — 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 Pennsylvania Steam Academy Cs is typically wider than the Pennsylvania Steam Academy Cs-aggregate figure suggests.
Comparisons are relative to Pennsylvania Steam Academy Cs's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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