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Clinton, Minnesota - 6 schools
An equity score of 65/100 ranks Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley #99 of 410 districts in Minnesota (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $16,381 per pupil, Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley ranks #113 of 504 Minnesota districts by per-pupil spending (Minnesota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
312
Total Enrollment
6
Schools
$16,381
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley operates 6 public schools serving 312 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Minnesota. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined, 2 elementary, 2 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 Big Stone County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $16,381 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 504 Minnesota districts by per-pupil spending. See how Minnesota compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 18.6% local, 70.0% state, and 11.3% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 65/100, ranked #99 of 410 in Minnesota against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 133:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 22.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 96.6% White, 1.4% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Pre-K - 5th Grade Building, with a diversity index of 20.7/100.
Its largest campus is Pre-K - 5th Grade Building, enrolling 152 students (46% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Lismore Colony Senior High School, at 1 students, a 152x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Pre-K - 5th Grade Building accounts for 45.6% of all Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley a distant remainder — means Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley school enrollment varies 152× across entities
Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley school enrollment ranges from 1 students (lowest) to 152 students (highest), a spread of 151 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 54.5% 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.
Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley student-counselor ratio is 133:1 — 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.
Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley chronic absenteeism rate is 22.0% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
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 Variation between sub-units within Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley is typically wider than the Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley-aggregate figure suggests.