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Prescott, Arizona - 8 schools
An equity score of 41/100 ranks Prescott Unified District (4466) #176 of 437 districts in Arizona (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $9,912 per pupil, Prescott Unified District (4466) ranks #397 of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending (Arizona districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
3,948
Total Enrollment
8
Schools
$9,912
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Prescott Unified District (4466) operates 8 public schools serving 3,948 students, placing it among the smaller districts in Arizona. The school portfolio breaks down into 4 elementary, 2 combined, 1 middle, 1 high schools, a compact enough portfolio that families can compare every campus directly before they move, rent, or enrol. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Yavapai County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $9,912 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending. See how Arizona compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 60.8% local, 26.7% state, and 12.5% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 41/100, ranked #176 of 437 in Arizona against a state average of 38, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 8 schools offering Advanced Placement (12 AP courses district-wide), a 456.1:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 46.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 66.4% White, 24.6% Hispanic or Latino, 1.2% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Genesis Academy, with a diversity index of 56.2/100.
Its largest campus is Prescott High School, enrolling 1,497 students (40% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Discovery Gardens Preschool, at 39 students, a 38x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Prescott High School accounts for 37.9% of all Prescott Unified District (4466) student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Prescott Unified District (4466)-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.
Prescott Unified District (4466) school enrollment varies 38× across entities
Prescott Unified District (4466) school enrollment ranges from 39 students (lowest) to 1,497 students (highest), a spread of 1,458 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme enrollment heterogeneity, the district operates both small specialty programs and large comprehensive campuses inside a single budgeting unit. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Prescott Unified District (4466) student-counselor ratio is 456:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Prescott Unified District (4466) chronic absenteeism rate is 46.0% — 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.
Comparisons are relative to Prescott Unified District (4466)'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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