At $32,065 per pupil, Roy Municipal Schools ranks #10 of 143 New Mexico districts by per-pupil spending (New Mexico districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Roy Municipal Schools operates 2 public schools serving 77 students, placing it among the smallest districts in New Mexico. 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 Harding County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $32,065 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 15 of 143 New Mexico districts by per-pupil spending. See how New Mexico compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 8.3% local, 88.1% state, and 3.7% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
a 36:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 13.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 69.0% Hispanic or Latino, 24.3% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Roy Elementary, enrolling 39 students (54% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 2.6% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (77 to 75 students), and the student-teacher ratio held roughly steady, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $2,822,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 56.4% went to instruction, 27.7% to support services, and 12.4% 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.
Roy Elementary accounts for 50.6% of all Roy Municipal Schools student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Roy Municipal Schools a distant remainder — means Roy Municipal Schools-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.
Roy Municipal Schools student-counselor ratio is 36:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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.
Roy Municipal Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 13.1% — low (typically associated with lower-than-average attendance disruption; districts in this range often have attendance interventions, robust transportation, or smaller catchments that reduce barriers)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.