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Vaughn, New Mexico - 2 schools
At $39,596 per pupil, Vaughn Municipal Schools ranks #1 of 141 New Mexico districts by per-pupil spending (New Mexico districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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$39,596
Per-Pupil Spending
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Vaughn Municipal Schools operates 2 public schools serving 46 students, placing it among the smallest districts in New Mexico. 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 Guadalupe County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $39,596 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 15 of 141 New Mexico districts by per-pupil spending. See how New Mexico compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 15.5% local, 79.5% state, and 5.0% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 18.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 86.3% Hispanic or Latino, 12.6% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Vaughn Elementary, enrolling 43 students (61% of the district's total enrollment).
Vaughn Elementary accounts for 61.4% of all Vaughn Municipal Schools student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Vaughn Municipal Schools a distant remainder — means Vaughn Municipal Schools-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.
Vaughn Municipal Schools has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 93.6% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Eligibility here is a supermajority of the population — well past the 75% concentration-grant threshold that unlocks extra funding on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Vaughn Municipal Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 18.8% — 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 Vaughn Municipal Schools is typically wider than the Vaughn Municipal Schools-aggregate figure suggests.