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White City, Kansas - 4 schools
An equity score of 68/100 ranks Rural Vista #54 of 250 districts in Kansas (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $17,155 per pupil, Rural Vista ranks #62 of 285 Kansas districts by per-pupil spending (Kansas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
265
Total Enrollment
4
Schools
$17,155
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Rural Vista operates 4 public schools serving 265 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Kansas. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined, 2 high 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 Morris County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,155 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 285 Kansas districts by per-pupil spending. See how Kansas compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 33.0% local, 60.2% state, and 6.8% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 68/100, ranked #54 of 250 in Kansas against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 101:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 26.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 86.6% White, 5.2% Hispanic or Latino, 1.1% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Hope Elem, with a diversity index of 28.7/100.
Its largest campus is White City Elem, enrolling 140 students (47% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Hope High, at 33 students, a 4x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
White City Elem accounts for 47.1% of all Rural Vista student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Rural Vista a distant remainder — means Rural Vista-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Rural Vista school enrollment varies 4.2× across entities
Rural Vista school enrollment ranges from 33 students (lowest) to 140 students (highest), a spread of 107 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.
Rural Vista student-counselor ratio is 101:1 — 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.
Rural Vista chronic absenteeism rate is 26.4% — 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 Rural Vista is typically wider than the Rural Vista-aggregate figure suggests.