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Tell City, Indiana - 2 schools
An equity score of 49/100 ranks Tell City-Troy Twp School Corp #196 of 373 districts in Indiana (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $10,963 per pupil, Tell City-Troy Twp School Corp ranks #284 of 406 Indiana districts by per-pupil spending (Indiana districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,400
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$10,963
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Tell City-Troy Twp School Corp operates 2 public schools serving 1,400 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Indiana. 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 Perry County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $10,963 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 406 Indiana districts by per-pupil spending. See how Indiana compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 26.3% local, 63.1% state, and 10.6% 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 49/100, ranked #196 of 373 in Indiana against a state average of 50, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 2 schools offering Advanced Placement (4 AP courses district-wide), a 521.3:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 25.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 91.8% White, 2.3% Hispanic or Latino, 1.4% Asian across the district's schools.
William Tell Elementary School accounts for 52.4% of all Tell City-Troy Twp School Corp student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Tell City-Troy Twp School Corp a distant remainder — means Tell City-Troy Twp School Corp-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.
Tell City-Troy Twp School Corp student-counselor ratio is 521:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 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.
Tell City-Troy Twp School Corp chronic absenteeism rate is 25.3% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
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 Variation between sub-units within Tell City-Troy Twp School Corp is typically wider than the Tell City-Troy Twp School Corp-aggregate figure suggests.
Comparisons are relative to Tell City-Troy Twp School Corp's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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