County / FIPS 29021
Buchanan County
Missouri
Buchanan County runs 34 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 2 Medicare-certified hospitals reporting to CMS, of which 1 carry an overall star rating.
At a glance
Public schools
34
Hospitals
2
With a star rating
1
Land area
408
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Buchanan County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$551.6M
Per resident
$6,505
Change since FY2021
−9%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $608M |
| 2022 | $483M |
| 2023 | $514M |
| 2024 | $518M |
| 2025 | $552M |
Figures are nominal — not adjusted for inflation — because USAspending publishes them that way and adjusting them here would mean this site had edited a government figure. The per-resident figure divides by the 2020 decennial count, which is the population USAspending carries; a 2020 denominator against 2025 spending overstates per-head figures wherever a place has grown since. Buchanan County ranks 827th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Buchanan County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Mosaic Life Care at St Joseph | Saint Joseph | |
| Northwest Missouri Psychiatric Rehab Ctr | Saint Joseph | Not rated |
Public schools in Buchanan County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benton High | St. Joseph | St Joseph | 676 |
| Bode Middle | St. Joseph | St Joseph | 486 |
| Carden Park Elem | St. Joseph | St. Joseph | 577 |
| Central High | St. Joseph | St Joseph | 1,728 |
| Coleman Elem. | St. Joseph | St Joseph | 349 |
| Dekalb Jr.-Sr. High | Buchanan Co. R-Iv | Dekalb | 135 |
| East Buchanan Middle | East Buchanan Co. C-1 | Easton | 172 |
| Edison Elem. | St. Joseph | St Joseph | 288 |
| Ellison Elem. | St. Joseph | St Joseph | 364 |
| Field Elem. | St. Joseph | St Joseph | 265 |
| Hosea Elem. | St. Joseph | St Joseph | 438 |
| Hyde Elem. | St. Joseph | St Joseph | 377 |
| Lafayette High | St. Joseph | St Joseph | 717 |
| Lindbergh Elem. | St. Joseph | St Joseph | 484 |
| Mark Twain Elem. | St. Joseph | St Joseph | 315 |
| Mid-Buchanan Elem. | Mid-Buchanan Co. R-V | Faucett | 471 |
| Mid-Buchanan Sr. High | Mid-Buchanan Co. R-V | Faucett | 394 |
| Oak Grove Elem | St. Joseph | St. Joseph | 842 |
| Parkway Elem. | St. Joseph | St Joseph | 379 |
| Pershing Elem. | St. Joseph | St Joseph | 267 |
| Pickett Elem. | St. Joseph | St Joseph | 290 |
| Robidoux Middle | St. Joseph | St Joseph | 390 |
| Rushville Elem. | Buchanan Co. R-Iv | Rushville | 155 |
| Skaith Elem. | St. Joseph | St Joseph | 367 |
| Spring Garden Middle | St. Joseph | St Joseph | 474 |
| Truman Middle | St. Joseph | St Joseph | 482 |
| Helen M Davis School | Mo Schls for the Sev Disabled | St Joseph | 39 |
| Riverbend Treatment Ctr. | Division of Youth Service | St Joseph | 20 |
| Virtual Academy | St. Joseph | St.Joseph | 13 |
| Hillyard Technical Ctr. | St. Joseph | St Joseph | — |
| Alt. Resource Ctr. | St. Joseph | St Joseph | — |
| Buchanan Co. Academy | St. Joseph | St Joseph | — |
| Western Recept/Diag Corr Centr | Department of Corrections | St Joseph | — |
| Western Region Treatment Centr | Department of Corrections | St Joseph | — |