At $18,519 per pupil, South Nodaway Co. R-Iv ranks #66 of 552 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending (Missouri districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
158
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$18,519
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
South Nodaway Co. R-Iv operates 2 public schools serving 158 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Missouri. 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 Nodaway County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $18,519 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 552 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending. See how Missouri compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 49.7% local, 42.0% state, and 8.3% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 55:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 5.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 96.2% White, 2.1% African American, 1.3% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is South Nodaway Elem., enrolling 94 students (57% of the district's total enrollment).
South Nodaway Elem. accounts for 57.0% of all South Nodaway Co. R-Iv student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of South Nodaway Co. R-Iv a distant remainder — means South Nodaway Co. R-Iv-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.
South Nodaway Co. R-Iv student-counselor ratio is 55:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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.
South Nodaway Co. R-Iv chronic absenteeism rate is 5.3% — 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.