District profile / Arkansas

Mena School District

Mena, Arkansas · Public school district · #66 of 113 Arkansas districts by enrollment

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1,703

Students

2024-25 school year

Schools

2024-25 school year

$10,516

Spending per student

FY2020-21 · about the same as the Arkansas median

9.7

Students per teacher

2024-25 · Arkansas median 12.7

Mena School District is a public school district based in Mena, Arkansas, serving 1,703 students in 5 schools. By enrollment it ranks #66 of the 113 Arkansas districts with 1,000 or more students, larger than about 42% of them. Its schools average 341 students each, fewer than the Arkansas median of 479. It spends about $10,516 per student on day-to-day operations, about the state median. It has roughly 9.7 students per teacher.

How Mena compares

MenaArkansas median, districts with 1,000+ students

Spending per student$10,516

Arkansas median $10,583 · about the same · FY2020-21

Instruction spending per student$5,588

Arkansas median $5,905 · 5% below · FY2020-21

Students per school341

Arkansas median 479 · 29% below · 2024-25

Students per teacher9.7

Arkansas median 12.7 · 24% below · 2024-25

Students per counselor341

Arkansas median 365 · 7% below · 2024-25

Spending and staffing

Where the money comes from$21.2 million in revenue · FY2020-21

Federal 22%State 47%Local 31%

Measure	Mena	Arkansas median	Year
Current spending per student	$10,516	$10,583	FY2020-21
Instruction spending per student	$5,588	$5,905	FY2020-21
Total spending	$19.4 million	n/a	FY2020-21
Total revenue	$21.2 million	n/a	FY2020-21
Teachers (full-time equivalent)	176	n/a	2024-25
Total staff (full-time equivalent)	297	n/a	2024-25
Students per teacher	9.7	12.7	2024-25
Students per counselor	341	365	2024-25

Spending: NCES school district finance survey (F-33), FY2020-21. Staffing and enrollment: NCES Common Core of Data, 2024-25. Via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. The Arkansas median compares districts with 1,000 or more students.

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Peer districts in Arkansas

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District	Students	Schools	Spending per student	Students per teacher	Rank
Gentry School DistrictGentry	1,753	4	$11,417	10.6	#64
Bauxite School DistrictBauxite	1,717	4	$9,050	14.1	#65
Mena School DistrictMena · this district	1,703	5	$10,516	9.7	#66
Hamburg School DistrictHamburg	1,697	5	$10,450	14.4	#67
Ozark School DistrictOzark	1,673	4	$9,985	12.6	#68

Similar-size districts nationally

District	Students	Spending per student	Students per teacher
Window Rock Unified District (4154)Fort Defiance, AZ	1,705	$14,218	17.8
Susquenita School DistrictDuncannon, PA	1,705	$15,023	12.5
Oneonta City School DistrictOneonta, NY	1,702	$21,491	10.2
Huntingdon Area School DistrictHuntingdon, PA	1,702	$15,766	11.1

Peers are the districts closest in enrollment, so they can still differ in many other ways. Enrollment, school counts and phone numbers are from the NCES Common Core of Data, 2024-25.

Printed from Superintendent's Corner: https://superintendentscorner.com/district-ar-mena-school-district