At $17,401 per pupil, Edgemont School District 23-1 ranks #21 of 149 South Dakota districts by per-pupil spending (South Dakota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
147
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$17,401
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Edgemont School District 23-1 operates 2 public schools serving 147 students, placing it among the smallest districts in South Dakota. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary, 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 Fall River County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,401 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 149 South Dakota districts by per-pupil spending. See how South Dakota compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 67.6% local, 19.9% state, and 12.4% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 152.1:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 26.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 84.3% White, 10.4% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Edgemont Elementary - 03, enrolling 93 students (78% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Edgemont High School - 01, at 26 students, a 4x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Edgemont Elementary - 03 accounts for 63.3% of all Edgemont School District 23-1 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Edgemont School District 23-1 a distant remainder — means Edgemont School District 23-1-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: elementary. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Edgemont School District 23-1 student-counselor ratio is 152:1 — 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.
Edgemont School District 23-1 chronic absenteeism rate is 26.1% — 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 Edgemont School District 23-1 is typically wider than the Edgemont School District 23-1-aggregate figure suggests.
Comparisons are relative to Edgemont School District 23-1's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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