At $15,236 per pupil, Ripley Co. R-Iv ranks #136 of 552 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending (Missouri districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Ripley Co. R-Iv operates 1 public schools serving 123 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Missouri. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 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 Ripley County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $15,236 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 552 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending. See how Missouri compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 23.7% local, 37.7% state, and 38.6% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 19.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 97.6% White, 1.6% Hispanic or Latino, 0.8% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Ripley Co. Elem., enrolling 125 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 4.9% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (123 to 117 students), and the student-teacher ratio held roughly steady, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $2,050,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 54.5% went to instruction, 33.1% to support services, and 1.9% to capital outlay, a fairly typical instruction/support/capital split for a public school district. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Ripley Co. Elem. accounts for 100.0% of all Ripley Co. R-Iv student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Ripley Co. R-Iv a distant remainder — means Ripley Co. R-Iv-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.
The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Ripley Co. R-Iv chronic absenteeism rate is 19.2% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
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 Variation between sub-units within Ripley Co. R-Iv is typically wider than the Ripley Co. R-Iv-aggregate figure suggests.