NCES CCD 2024-25 16 schools ND

Best-Resourced Schools in Grand Forks, ND

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

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16
Schools
7,514
Students
45.6/100
Avg Resource Index
11.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Grand Forks has more public-school enrollment than 71% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Grand Forks 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.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

10 of Grand Forks's 16 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 29-point gap between Community Alternative High School and Winship Elementary School shows the range hidden by Grand Forks'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 29%
School count
Top 21%
Resource Index average
72nd percentile
Teacher staffing
89th percentile

Red River High School accounts for 15.8% of all Grand Forks public-school enrollment

That concentration means Grand Forks-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

Grand Forks school enrollment varies 16× across entities

Grand Forks school enrollment ranges from 73 students (lowest) to 1,190 students (highest), a spread of 1,117 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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

Grand Forks operates one school district — a single-district system

Grand Forks'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

Grand Forks student-teacher ratio is 11.9:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Community Alternative High School 61
2. Schroeder Middle School 54
3. Lewis and Clark Elementary School 52
4. Discovery Elementary School 50
5. Valley Middle School 49
6. Phoenix Elementary School 48
7. Red River High School 45
8. South Middle School 45
9. Century Elementary School 45
10. Viking Elementary School 45
11. Ben Franklin Elementary School 43
12. Lake Agassiz Elementary School 41
13. Central High School 40
14. J Nelson Kelly Elementary School 40
15. Wilder Elementary School 39
16. Winship Elementary School 32

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Grand Forks

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 Lake Agassiz Elementary School 76.4/100
  2. 2 Century Elementary School 74.1/100
  3. 3 Winship Elementary School 72.8/100
  4. 4 Community Alternative High School 68.2/100
  5. 5 Valley Middle School 67.9/100

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Which Grand Forks school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Community Alternative High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Grand Forks schools in this federal-data comparison at 61/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Grand Forks, ND? ▼

Grand Forks has 16 public schools with a total enrollment of 7,514 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.9:1.

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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.