At $23,557 per pupil, Vernon Elementary District (4162) ranks #49 of 633 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 $23,557 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 64 of 633 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).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 3.3% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (123 to 127 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 5.2 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $3,230,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 47.1% went to instruction, 34.1% to support services, and 1.8% 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.
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 largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Vernon Elementary District (4162) reports 64.2% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
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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