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Royal Center, Indiana - 2 schools
An equity score of 56/100 ranks Pioneer Regional School Corp #148 of 373 districts in Indiana (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $11,844 per pupil, Pioneer Regional School Corp ranks #185 of 406 Indiana districts by per-pupil spending (Indiana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
941
Total Enrollment
2
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$11,844
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Pioneer Regional School Corp operates 2 public schools serving 941 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Indiana. 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 Cass County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $11,844 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 406 Indiana districts by per-pupil spending. See how Indiana compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 28.8% local, 62.7% state, and 8.5% 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 56/100, ranked #148 of 373 in Indiana against a state average of 50, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 2 schools offering Advanced Placement (5 AP courses district-wide), a 342.8:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 13.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 89.3% White, 6.5% Hispanic or Latino, 1.0% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Pioneer Elementary School, enrolling 473 students (53% of the district's total enrollment).
Pioneer Elementary School accounts for 50.3% of all Pioneer Regional School Corp student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Pioneer Regional School Corp a distant remainder — means Pioneer Regional School Corp-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.
Pioneer Regional School Corp student-counselor ratio is 343:1 — 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 Pioneer Regional School Corp is typically wider than the Pioneer Regional School Corp-aggregate figure suggests.
Pioneer Regional School Corp chronic absenteeism rate is 13.8% — 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.