At $15,257 per pupil, Wellton Elementary District (4504) ranks #135 of 633 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending (Arizona districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Wellton Elementary District (4504) operates 1 public schools serving 156 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 Yuma County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $15,257 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 633 Arizona districts by per-pupil spending. See how Arizona compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 31.8% local, 35.0% state, and 33.2% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 29.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 78.9% Hispanic or Latino, 13.4% White, 2.4% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Wellton Elementary School, enrolling 209 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 17.9% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (156 to 184 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 1.2 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $2,602,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 43.2% went to instruction, 40.5% to support services, and 10.9% to capital outlay, support-services-heavy relative to typical districts, reflecting spending on transportation, administration, or student services. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Wellton Elementary School accounts for 100.0% of all Wellton Elementary District (4504) student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Wellton Elementary District (4504) a distant remainder — means Wellton Elementary District (4504)-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.
Wellton Elementary District (4504) reports 68.6% 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.
Wellton Elementary District (4504) chronic absenteeism rate is 29.2% — 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 Wellton Elementary District (4504) is typically wider than the Wellton Elementary District (4504)-aggregate figure suggests.
Comparisons are relative to Wellton Elementary District (4504)'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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