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Pineville, Kentucky - 1 schools
An equity score of 69/100 ranks Pineville Independent #37 of 171 districts in Kentucky (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $12,766 per pupil, Pineville Independent ranks #88 of 171 Kentucky districts by per-pupil spending (Kentucky districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Pineville Independent operates 1 public schools serving 577 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Kentucky. 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 Bell County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $12,766 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 171 Kentucky districts by per-pupil spending. See how Kentucky compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 11.3% local, 61.4% state, and 27.3% 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 69/100, ranked #37 of 171 in Kentucky against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 265.5:1 student-counselor ratio, somewhat above the 250:1 ASCA recommendation, and 65.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 93.2% White, 2.4% African American, 1.9% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Pineville Independent School, enrolling 531 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Pineville Independent School accounts for 92.0% of all Pineville Independent student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Pineville Independent a distant remainder — means Pineville Independent-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.
Pineville Independent has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 71.2% 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). Eligibility here is approaching the 75% concentration-grant threshold; it does not yet unlock the extra funding tier but sits meaningfully above the baseline 50% majority mark. 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.
Pineville Independent student-counselor ratio is 266:1 — 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 Pineville Independent is typically wider than the Pineville Independent-aggregate figure suggests.
Pineville Independent chronic absenteeism rate is 65.5% — 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.