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Vernon, Arizona - 1 schools
At $22,400 per pupil, Vernon Elementary District (4162) ranks #51 of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending (Arizona districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Vernon Elementary District (4162) operates 1 public schools serving 123 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Arizona. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 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 Apache County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $22,400 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 64 of 634 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending. See how Arizona compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 41.9% local, 32.7% state, and 25.3% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 552:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 54.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 79.0% White, 13.0% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Vernon Elementary School, enrolling 138 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Vernon Elementary School accounts for 100.0% of all Vernon Elementary District (4162) student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Vernon Elementary District (4162) a distant remainder — means Vernon Elementary District (4162)-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.
Vernon Elementary District (4162) has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 64.2% 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 approaching the 75% concentration-grant threshold; it does not yet unlock the extra funding tier but sits meaningfully above the baseline 50% majority mark. 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.
Vernon Elementary District (4162) student-counselor ratio is 552:1 — 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.
Vernon Elementary District (4162) chronic absenteeism rate is 54.3% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 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.
Comparisons are relative to Vernon Elementary District (4162)'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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