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Vermillion, Kansas - 4 schools
An equity score of 19/100 ranks Vermillion #236 of 250 districts in Kansas (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $11,517 per pupil, Vermillion ranks #268 of 285 Kansas districts by per-pupil spending (Kansas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Vermillion operates 4 public schools serving 652 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Kansas. The school portfolio breaks down into 4 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 Marshall County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $11,517 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 29 of 285 Kansas districts by per-pupil spending. See how Kansas compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 28.8% local, 63.9% state, and 7.3% 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 19/100, ranked #236 of 250 in Kansas against a state average of 50, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 379.5:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 6.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 92.7% White, 2.1% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Frankfort Elem, with a diversity index of 16.1/100.
Its largest campus is Centralia Elem, enrolling 197 students (31% of the district's total enrollment).
Centralia Elem accounts for 30.2% of all Vermillion student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Vermillion-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.
Vermillion student-counselor ratio is 380:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Vermillion chronic absenteeism rate is 6.8% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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.