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Wellsville, Missouri - 2 schools
An equity score of 74/100 ranks Wellsville Middletown R-I #48 of 432 districts in Missouri (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $12,671 per pupil, Wellsville Middletown R-I ranks #222 of 549 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending (Missouri districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Wellsville Middletown R-I operates 2 public schools serving 311 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 Montgomery County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $12,671 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 549 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending. See how Missouri compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 46.3% local, 33.7% state, and 20.0% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 74/100, ranked #48 of 432 in Missouri against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 166.6:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 30.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 92.7% White, 3.7% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Wellsville-Middletown Hs, enrolling 145 students (56% of the district's total enrollment).
Wellsville-Middletown Hs accounts for 46.6% of all Wellsville Middletown R-I student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Wellsville Middletown R-I a distant remainder — means Wellsville Middletown R-I-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.
Wellsville Middletown R-I student-counselor ratio is 167:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Wellsville Middletown R-I chronic absenteeism rate is 30.4% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.