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Mountain View-Birch Tree R-III

Mountain View, Missouri · Superintendent: Lanna Tharp · #153 of 166 Missouri districts by enrollment

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1,184

Students

2024-25 school year

Schools

2024-25 school year

$10,088

Spending per student

FY2020-21 · about the same as the Missouri median

11.8

Students per teacher

2024-25 · Missouri median 13.4

Mountain View-Birch Tree R-III is a public school district based in Mountain View, Missouri, serving 1,184 students in 4 schools. By enrollment it ranks #153 of the 166 Missouri districts with 1,000 or more students, larger than about 8% of them. Its schools average 296 students each, fewer than the Missouri median of 443. Its superintendent is Lanna Tharp. It spends about $10,088 per student on day-to-day operations, about the state median. It has roughly 11.8 students per teacher.

How Mountain View-Birch Tree R-III compares

Mountain View-Birch Tree R-IIIMissouri median, districts with 1,000+ students

Spending per student$10,088

Missouri median $10,251 · about the same · FY2020-21

Instruction spending per student$5,735

Missouri median $5,958 · about the same · FY2020-21

Students per school296

Missouri median 443 · 33% below · 2024-25

Students per teacher11.8

Missouri median 13.4 · 12% below · 2024-25

Students per counselor296

Missouri median 312 · 5% below · 2024-25

Spending and staffing

Where the money comes from$13.9 million in revenue · FY2020-21

Federal 25%State 45%Local 30%

Measure	Mountain View-Birch Tree R-III	Missouri median	Year
Current spending per student	$10,088	$10,251	FY2020-21
Instruction spending per student	$5,735	$5,958	FY2020-21
Total spending	$12.4 million	n/a	FY2020-21
Total revenue	$13.9 million	n/a	FY2020-21
Teachers (full-time equivalent)	100	n/a	2024-25
Total staff (full-time equivalent)	138	n/a	2024-25
Students per teacher	11.8	13.4	2024-25
Students per counselor	296	312	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 Missouri median compares districts with 1,000 or more students.

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Lanna Tharp

Superintendent, Mountain View-Birch Tree R-III

Source: Missouri DESE, School Directory, checked 2026-10-05. Report a change

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Peer districts in Missouri

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District	Students	Schools	Spending per student	Students per teacher	Rank
Mountain View-Birch Tree R-IIIMountain View · this district	1,184	4	$10,088	11.8	#153
Crawford Co. R-IICuba	1,180	3	$9,387	12.6	#154
Macon Co. R-IMacon	1,174	5	$9,650	10.8	#155
Willow Springs R-IVWillow Springs	1,171	3	$9,599	10.5	#156
Blair Oaks R-IIJefferson City	1,163	4	$9,362	14.4	#157

Similar-size districts nationally

District	Students	Spending per student	Students per teacher
Greater Commonwealth Virtual DistrictGreenfield, MA	1,184	$10,038	14.3
Harrison Community SchoolsHarrison, MI	1,184	$12,447	15.2
Chisum ISDParis, TX	1,184	$11,444	12.5
Prescott School DistrictPrescott, WI	1,184	$12,716	14.6

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.

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