At $21,186 per pupil, Pritchett School District No. Re-3 ranks #30 of 180 Colorado districts by per-pupil spending (Colorado districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$21,186
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Pritchett School District No. Re-3 operates 3 public schools serving 59 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Colorado. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 high, 1 middle 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 Baca County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $21,186 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 180 Colorado districts by per-pupil spending. See how Colorado compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 52.1% local, 37.0% state, and 10.9% 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 47.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 87.8% White, 12.2% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Pritchett Middle School, with a diversity index of 32.0/100.
Its largest campus is Pritchett Elementary School, enrolling 42 students (66% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Pritchett Middle School, at 10 students, a 4x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Pritchett Elementary School accounts for 65.6% of all Pritchett School District No. Re-3 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Pritchett School District No. Re-3 a distant remainder — means Pritchett School District No. Re-3-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.
Pritchett School District No. Re-3 school enrollment varies 4.2× across entities
Pritchett School District No. Re-3 school enrollment ranges from 10 students (lowest) to 42 students (highest), a spread of 32 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Pritchett School District No. Re-3 chronic absenteeism rate is 47.5% — 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.
Comparisons are relative to Pritchett School District No. Re-3's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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