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Frederick, South Dakota - 3 schools
At $15,121 per pupil, Frederick Area School District 06-2 ranks #35 of 149 South Dakota districts by per-pupil spending (South Dakota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
171
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$15,121
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Frederick Area School District 06-2 operates 3 public schools serving 171 students, placing it among the smallest districts in South Dakota. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary, 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 Brown County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $15,121 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 62.7% local, 20.9% state, and 16.5% 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 181.5:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 20.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 90.9% White, 1.2% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Frederick High School - 01, with a diversity index of 18.6/100.
Its largest campus is Frederick Elementary - 02, enrolling 98 students (52% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Frederick Jr. High - 03, at 30 students, a 3x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Frederick Elementary - 02 accounts for 52.4% of all Frederick Area School District 06-2 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Frederick Area School District 06-2 a distant remainder — means Frederick Area School District 06-2-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. 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.
Frederick Area School District 06-2 school enrollment varies 3.3× across entities
Frederick Area School District 06-2 school enrollment ranges from 30 students (lowest) to 98 students (highest), a spread of 68 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.
Frederick Area School District 06-2 student-counselor ratio is 182:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Frederick Area School District 06-2 chronic absenteeism rate is 20.7% — 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 Frederick Area School District 06-2 is typically wider than the Frederick Area School District 06-2-aggregate figure suggests.
Comparisons are relative to Frederick Area School District 06-2's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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