At $17,386 per pupil, Tri-County R-Vii ranks #88 of 552 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending (Missouri districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
189
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$17,386
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Tri-County R-Vii operates 2 public schools serving 189 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 Daviess County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,386 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 37.8% local, 23.0% state, and 39.1% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 84:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 19.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 94.7% White, 2.4% Hispanic or Latino, 2.4% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Tri-County Elem., enrolling 85 students (51% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 7.4% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (189 to 175 students), and the student-teacher ratio tightened by 1.2 students per teacher as staffing held steadier than enrollment, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $3,843,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 55.1% went to instruction, 26.3% to support services, and 7.3% to capital outlay, a fairly typical instruction/support/capital split for a public school district. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Tri-County Elem. accounts for 45.0% of all Tri-County R-Vii student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Tri-County R-Vii-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.
Tri-County R-Vii student-counselor ratio is 84:1 — 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.
Tri-County R-Vii chronic absenteeism rate is 19.8% — 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 Tri-County R-Vii is typically wider than the Tri-County R-Vii-aggregate figure suggests.