NCES CCD 2024-25 12 schools ND

Best-Resourced Schools in Dickinson, ND

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12 public K-12 schools in Dickinson from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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12
Schools
4,177
Students
39.5/100
Avg Resource Index
20.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Dickinson has more public-school enrollment than 47% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Dickinson sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

7 of Dickinson's 12 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 3 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 43-point gap between Roosevelt Elementary School and Roughrider High Virtual Academy shows the range hidden by Dickinson's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 53%
School count
Top 31%
Resource Index average
43rd percentile
Teacher staffing
14th percentile

Dickinson High School accounts for 24.5% of all Dickinson public-school enrollment

That concentration means Dickinson-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Dickinson school enrollment varies 27× across entities

Dickinson school enrollment ranges from 38 students (lowest) to 1,022 students (highest), a spread of 984 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Dickinson operates one school district — a single-district system

Dickinson's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Dickinson student-teacher ratio is 20.3:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Roosevelt Elementary School 58
2. Southwest Community High School 55
3. Lincoln Elementary School 47
4. Heart River Elementary School 46
5. P S Berg Elementary School 46
6. Prairie Rose Elementary School 43
7. Jefferson Elementary School 42
8. Dickinson High School 33
9. Dickinson Middle School 33
10. Early Childhood Center 29
11. Roughrider Elementary Virtual Academy 27
12. Roughrider High Virtual Academy 15

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Dickinson

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 P S Berg Elementary School 49.3/100
  2. 2 Prairie Rose Elementary School 48.8/100
  3. 3 Southwest Community High School 48.7/100
  4. 4 Heart River Elementary School 46.8/100
  5. 5 Dickinson Middle School 46.3/100

What do families ask about schools in Dickinson?

Which Dickinson school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Roosevelt Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Dickinson schools in this federal-data comparison at 58/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Dickinson, ND? ▼

Dickinson has 12 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,177 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 20.3:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.