At $12,103 per pupil, Southwest Livingston Co. R-I ranks #341 of 552 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending (Missouri districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
184
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$12,103
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Southwest Livingston Co. R-I operates 2 public schools serving 184 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 Livingston County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $12,103 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 552 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending. See how Missouri compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 43.1% local, 40.7% state, and 16.1% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 89.5:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 94.5% White, 4.5% Hispanic or Latino, 0.6% African American across the district's schools.
Southwest Livingston Co R-1 El accounts for 48.9% of all Southwest Livingston Co. R-I student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Southwest Livingston Co. R-I a distant remainder — means Southwest Livingston Co. R-I-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. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.
The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. 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.
Southwest Livingston Co. R-I student-counselor ratio is 90:1 — 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.