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Benkelman, Nebraska - 2 schools
An equity score of 75/100 ranks Dundy Co Stratton Public Schs #16 of 200 districts in Nebraska (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $23,109 per pupil, Dundy Co Stratton Public Schs ranks #26 of 244 Nebraska districts by per-pupil spending (Nebraska districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
290
Total Enrollment
2
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$23,109
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Dundy Co Stratton Public Schs operates 2 public schools serving 290 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Nebraska. 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 Dundy County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $23,109 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 244 Nebraska districts by per-pupil spending. See how Nebraska compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 76.9% local, 12.2% state, and 10.9% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 75/100, ranked #16 of 200 in Nebraska against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 502.5:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 21.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 82.7% White, 14.9% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Benkelman Elementary School, enrolling 159 students (56% of the district's total enrollment).
Benkelman Elementary School accounts for 54.8% of all Dundy Co Stratton Public Schs student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Dundy Co Stratton Public Schs a distant remainder — means Dundy Co Stratton Public Schs-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.
Dundy Co Stratton Public Schs student-counselor ratio is 503:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 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.
Dundy Co Stratton Public Schs chronic absenteeism rate is 21.4% — 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 Dundy Co Stratton Public Schs is typically wider than the Dundy Co Stratton Public Schs-aggregate figure suggests.
Comparisons are relative to Dundy Co Stratton Public Schs's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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