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Thornfield, Missouri - 1 schools
At $18,436 per pupil, Thornfield R-I ranks #36 of 549 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending (Missouri districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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$18,436
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Thornfield R-I operates 1 public schools serving 49 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Missouri. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary 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 Ozark County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $18,436 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 55 of 549 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending. See how Missouri compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 38.6% local, 35.8% state, and 25.6% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 240:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 12.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 97.9% White, 2.1% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Thornfield Elem., enrolling 48 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Thornfield Elem. accounts for 98.0% of all Thornfield R-I student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Thornfield R-I a distant remainder — means Thornfield R-I-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. 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.
Thornfield R-I student-counselor ratio is 240:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Thornfield R-I chronic absenteeism rate is 12.5% — low (typically associated with lower-than-average attendance disruption; districts in this range often have attendance interventions, robust transportation, or smaller catchments that reduce barriers)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.