At $8,232 per pupil, Quest Academy ranks #314 of 328 North Carolina districts by per-pupil spending (North Carolina districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Quest Academy operates 1 public schools serving 142 students, placing it among the smallest districts in North Carolina. 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 Wake County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $8,232 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 33 of 328 North Carolina districts by per-pupil spending. See how North Carolina compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 32.2% local, 64.1% state, and 3.8% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 0.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 75.5% White, 6.5% Hispanic or Latino, 5.8% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Quest Academy, enrolling 139 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses held roughly steady from 2022-23 to 2023-24 (142 to 144 students, +1.4%), per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $1,212,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 68% went to instruction, 28.5% to support services, and 3.5% to capital outlay, unusually instruction-forward, with a larger-than-typical share reaching classrooms directly. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Quest Academy accounts for 97.9% of all Quest Academy student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Quest Academy a distant remainder — means Quest Academy-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.
Quest Academy chronic absenteeism rate is 0.7% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Quest Academy has 1 school, including 1 elementary. Total enrollment is 142 students.
How much does Quest Academy spend per student?
Quest Academy spends $8,232 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Quest Academy?
Quest Academy students are 75.5% White, 6.5% Hispanic or Latino, 5.8% Asian, 3.6% African American, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.