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Faribault, Minnesota - 3 schools
90
Total Enrollment
3
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Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Cannon Valley Special Education Coo operates 3 public schools serving 90 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Minnesota. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined, 1 high 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 Rice County.
The funding mix is 18.2% local, 81.2% state, and 0.7% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 47.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 65.3% White, 17.1% Hispanic or Latino, 9.8% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Laura Baker Sun Program, with a diversity index of 57.4/100.
Its largest campus is Cvsec Step, enrolling 47 students (48% of the district's total enrollment).
Cvsec Step accounts for 48.5% of all Cannon Valley Special Education Coo student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Cannon Valley Special Education Coo a distant remainder — means Cannon Valley Special Education Coo-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Cannon Valley Special Education Coo school enrollment varies 2.6× across entities
Cannon Valley Special Education Coo school enrollment ranges from 18 students (lowest) to 47 students (highest), a spread of 29 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Cannon Valley Special Education Coo has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 60.7% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Cannon Valley Special Education Coo chronic absenteeism rate is 47.4% — 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 Cannon Valley Special Education Coo'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 Cannon Valley Special Education Coo?
Cannon Valley Special Education Coo has 3 schools, including 1 high, 2 combined. Total enrollment is 90 students.
What is the demographic composition of Cannon Valley Special Education Coo?
Cannon Valley Special Education Coo students are 65.3% White, 17.1% Hispanic or Latino, 9.8% African American, 1.7% Asian, averaged across 3 schools. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.