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Fergus Falls, Minnesota - 3 schools
82
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
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Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Fergus Falls Area Sp. Ed. Coop. operates 3 public schools serving 82 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Minnesota. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined, 1 elementary 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 Otter Tail County.
The funding mix is 25.5% local, 31.9% state, and 42.6% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 50.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 78.3% White, 3.7% Hispanic or Latino, 1.9% African American across the district's schools.
Fergus Falls Early Childhood Sp Ed accounts for 32.9% of all Fergus Falls Area Sp. Ed. Coop. student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Fergus Falls Area Sp. Ed. Coop.-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.
Fergus Falls Area Sp. Ed. Coop. school enrollment varies 6.8× across entities
Fergus Falls Area Sp. Ed. Coop. school enrollment ranges from 4 students (lowest) to 27 students (highest), a spread of 23 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.
Fergus Falls Area Sp. Ed. Coop. chronic absenteeism rate is 50.0% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 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.
Comparisons are relative to Fergus Falls Area Sp. Ed. Coop.'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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