At $18,366 per pupil, Butternut School District ranks #54 of 423 Wisconsin districts by per-pupil spending (Wisconsin districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
194
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$18,366
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Butternut School District operates 2 public schools serving 194 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Wisconsin. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 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 Ashland County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $18,366 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 423 Wisconsin districts by per-pupil spending. See how Wisconsin compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 61.9% local, 27.8% state, and 10.3% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
and 36.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 93.8% White, 1.2% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Butternut High, enrolling 92 students (52% of the district's total enrollment).
Butternut High accounts for 47.4% of all Butternut School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Butternut School District a distant remainder — means Butternut School 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. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.
Butternut School District chronic absenteeism rate is 36.0% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.