At $19,865 per pupil, School District No. Re-5 Plateau ranks #36 of 180 Colorado districts by per-pupil spending (Colorado districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
178
Total Enrollment
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Schools
$19,865
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District-Level NCES Analysis
School District No. Re-5 Plateau operates 2 public schools serving 178 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Colorado. 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 Logan County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $19,865 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 180 Colorado districts by per-pupil spending. See how Colorado compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 54.5% local, 36.6% state, and 8.8% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
and 4.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 91.0% White, 6.8% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Peetz Elementary School, enrolling 114 students (56% of the district's total enrollment).
Peetz Elementary School accounts for 55.9% of all School District No. Re-5 Plateau student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of School District No. Re-5 Plateau a distant remainder — means School District No. Re-5 Plateau-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.
School District No. Re-5 Plateau chronic absenteeism rate is 4.8% — 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 School District No. Re-5 Plateau's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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