An equity score of 54/100 ranks Riceville Comm School District #144 of 303 districts in Iowa (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $13,631 per pupil, Riceville Comm School District ranks #109 of 327 Iowa districts by per-pupil spending (Iowa districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
406
Total Enrollment
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$13,631
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Riceville Comm School District operates 2 public schools serving 406 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Iowa. 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 Howard County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $13,631 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 327 Iowa districts by per-pupil spending. See how Iowa compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 55.6% local, 27.5% state, and 16.9% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 54/100, ranked #144 of 303 in Iowa against a state average of 50, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
and 9.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 88.4% White, 7.7% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Riceville Elementary School, enrolling 226 students (52% of the district's total enrollment).
Riceville Elementary School accounts for 52.4% of all Riceville Comm School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Riceville Comm School District a distant remainder — means Riceville Comm School District-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.
Riceville Comm School District chronic absenteeism rate is 9.7% — 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.
Comparisons are relative to Riceville Comm School District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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