At $27,018 per pupil, Exeter-Milligan Public Schools ranks #15 of 244 Nebraska districts by per-pupil spending (Nebraska districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
165
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$27,018
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Exeter-Milligan Public Schools operates 3 public schools serving 165 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Nebraska. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 high, 1 middle 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 Fillmore County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $27,018 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 25 of 244 Nebraska districts by per-pupil spending. See how Nebraska compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 78.6% local, 18.7% state, and 2.7% 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 46:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 9.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 96.8% White, 2.5% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Exeter-Milligan Elem-Exeter, with a diversity index of 10.0/100.
Its largest campus is Exeter-Milligan Elem-Exeter, enrolling 97 students (57% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Exeter-Milligan Middle School, at 27 students, a 4x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses held roughly steady from 2022-23 to 2023-24 (165 to 168 students, +1.8%), per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $5,060,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 48.3% went to instruction, 36.7% to support services, and 4.9% to capital outlay, support-services-heavy relative to typical districts, reflecting spending on transportation, administration, or student services. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Exeter-Milligan Elem-Exeter accounts for 57.1% of all Exeter-Milligan Public Schools student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Exeter-Milligan Public Schools a distant remainder — means Exeter-Milligan Public Schools-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
Exeter-Milligan Public Schools school enrollment varies 3.6× across entities
Exeter-Milligan Public Schools school enrollment ranges from 27 students (lowest) to 97 students (highest), a spread of 70 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.
Exeter-Milligan Public Schools student-counselor ratio is 46:1 — 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.
Exeter-Milligan Public Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 9.5% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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.
Comparisons are relative to Exeter-Milligan Public Schools's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
Nearby Districts in Nebraska
Top districts in the same state, compare side-by-side for enrollment, spending, and demographics.