At $25,088 per pupil, San Jon Municipal Schools ranks #22 of 143 New Mexico districts by per-pupil spending (New Mexico districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
125
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$25,088
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
San Jon Municipal Schools operates 3 public schools serving 125 students, placing it among the smallest districts in New Mexico. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 high, 1 middle 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 Quay County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $25,088 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half 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, 84.1% state, and 7.6% 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 14.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 63.1% Hispanic or Latino, 31.9% White across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is San Jon High, with a diversity index of 55.8/100.
Its largest campus is San Jon Elementary, enrolling 64 students (52% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses held roughly steady from 2022-23 to 2023-24 (125 to 123 students, -1.6%), per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $3,541,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 51% went to instruction, 33.7% to support services, and 11% 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.
San Jon Elementary accounts for 51.2% of all San Jon Municipal Schools student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of San Jon Municipal Schools a distant remainder — means San Jon 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.
San Jon Municipal Schools school enrollment varies 2.2× across entities
San Jon Municipal Schools school enrollment ranges from 29 students (lowest) to 64 students (highest), a spread of 35 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.
San Jon Municipal Schools reports 100.0% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share is above 87.5%, so economic need is widespread across the measured student population. 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.
San Jon Municipal Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 14.6% — 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.