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Snowflake, Arizona - 7 schools
An equity score of 17/100 ranks Snowflake Unified District (4391) #393 of 437 districts in Arizona (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $7,928 per pupil, Snowflake Unified District (4391) ranks #578 of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending (Arizona districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
2,948
Total Enrollment
7
Schools
$7,928
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Snowflake Unified District (4391) operates 7 public schools serving 2,948 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Arizona. The school portfolio breaks down into 4 elementary, 2 combined, 1 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 Navajo County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $7,928 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 64 of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending. See how Arizona compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 20.1% local, 56.0% state, and 23.8% 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 17/100, ranked #393 of 437 in Arizona against a state average of 38, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 474.5:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 44.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 73.8% White, 16.9% Hispanic or Latino, 0.3% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Snowflake Preschool, with a diversity index of 54.3/100.
Its largest campus is Snowflake High School, enrolling 949 students (34% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Snowflake Preschool, at 18 students, a 53x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Snowflake High School accounts for 32.2% of all Snowflake Unified District (4391) student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Snowflake Unified District (4391)-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Snowflake Unified District (4391) school enrollment varies 53× across entities
Snowflake Unified District (4391) school enrollment ranges from 18 students (lowest) to 949 students (highest), a spread of 931 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme enrollment heterogeneity, the district operates both small specialty programs and large comprehensive campuses inside a single budgeting unit. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Snowflake Unified District (4391) student-counselor ratio is 475:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Snowflake Unified District (4391) chronic absenteeism rate is 44.2% — 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 Snowflake Unified District (4391)'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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