Benton-Stearns Education District operates 6 public schools serving 142 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Minnesota. The school portfolio breaks down into 4 combined, 1 high, 1 elementary schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Stearns County.
The funding mix is 27.1% local, 43.4% state, and 29.5% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 51.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 81.6% White, 7.3% African American, 3.7% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Grafton School, with a diversity index of 46.0/100.
Benton-Stearns Ed District Ec accounts for 58.2% of all Benton-Stearns Education District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Benton-Stearns Education District a distant remainder — means Benton-Stearns Education District-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Benton-Stearns Education District school enrollment varies 12× across entities
Benton-Stearns Education District school enrollment ranges from 8 students (lowest) to 99 students (highest), a spread of 91 students. That spread reflects typical mixed-portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Benton-Stearns Education District chronic absenteeism rate is 51.9% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Comparisons are relative to Benton-Stearns Education District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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How many schools are in Benton-Stearns Education District?
Benton-Stearns Education District has 6 schools, including 4 combined, 1 high, 1 elementary. Total enrollment is 142 students.
What is the demographic composition of Benton-Stearns Education District?
Benton-Stearns Education District students are 81.6% White, 7.3% African American, 3.7% Hispanic or Latino, 1.8% Asian, averaged across 6 schools. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.