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Davenport, Nebraska - 4 schools
At $25,573 per pupil, Bruning-Davenport Unified Sys ranks #16 of 244 Nebraska districts by per-pupil spending (Nebraska districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
178
Total Enrollment
4
Schools
$25,573
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Bruning-Davenport Unified Sys operates 4 public schools serving 178 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Nebraska. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 elementary, 1 high, 1 combined 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 Thayer County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $25,573 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 25 of 244 Nebraska districts by per-pupil spending. See how Nebraska compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 78.1% local, 16.0% state, and 5.8% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 71.3:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 12.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 93.0% White, 4.9% Hispanic or Latino, 1.6% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Bruning-Davenport High School, with a diversity index of 15.0/100.
Its largest campus is Bruning-Davenport Middle Sch, enrolling 51 students (27% of the district's total enrollment).
Bruning-Davenport Middle Sch accounts for 27.3% of all Bruning-Davenport Unified Sys student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Bruning-Davenport Unified Sys-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Bruning-Davenport Unified Sys student-counselor ratio is 71:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Bruning-Davenport Unified Sys chronic absenteeism rate is 12.8% — low (typically associated with lower-than-average attendance disruption; districts in this range often have attendance interventions, robust transportation, or smaller catchments that reduce barriers)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Comparisons are relative to Bruning-Davenport Unified Sys's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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