At $18,974 per pupil, Six Directions Indigenous School ranks #56 of 143 New Mexico districts by per-pupil spending (New Mexico districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Six Directions Indigenous School operates 1 public schools serving 76 students, placing it among the smallest districts in New Mexico. 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 Mckinley County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $18,974 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 5.5% local, 74.0% state, and 20.4% 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 51.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 1.7% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 21.1% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (76 to 60 students), and the student-teacher ratio widened by 4.4 students per teacher despite the decline, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $1,504,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 48.7% went to instruction, 44.5% to support services, and 4.1% to capital outlay, support-services-heavy relative to typical districts, reflecting spending on transportation, administration, or student services. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Six Directions Indigenous School accounts for 76.3% of all Six Directions Indigenous School student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Six Directions Indigenous School a distant remainder — means Six Directions Indigenous School-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.
Six Directions Indigenous School 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.
Six Directions Indigenous School chronic absenteeism rate is 51.7% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Comparisons are relative to Six Directions Indigenous School's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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