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Drayton, North Dakota - 2 schools
At $22,701 per pupil, Drayton 19 ranks #27 of 168 North Dakota districts by per-pupil spending (North Dakota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
176
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$22,701
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Drayton 19 operates 2 public schools serving 176 students, placing it among the smallest districts in North Dakota. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 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 Pembina County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $22,701 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 168 North Dakota districts by per-pupil spending. See how North Dakota compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 38.2% local, 47.8% state, and 13.9% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 91:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 29.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 82.0% White, 16.7% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Drayton Elementary School, enrolling 120 students (66% of the district's total enrollment).
Drayton Elementary School accounts for 65.9% of all Drayton 19 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Drayton 19 a distant remainder — means Drayton 19-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.
Drayton 19 student-counselor ratio is 91:1 — 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.
Drayton 19 chronic absenteeism rate is 29.9% — 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 Drayton 19 is typically wider than the Drayton 19-aggregate figure suggests.