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Gallup, New Mexico - 1 schools
At $19,672 per pupil, Six Directions Indigenous School ranks #30 of 141 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 $19,672 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 141 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.
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 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.
Six Directions Indigenous School has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 100.0% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Eligibility here is a supermajority of the population — well past the 75% concentration-grant threshold that unlocks extra funding on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
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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