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Fort Totten, North Dakota - 2 schools
An equity score of 82/100 ranks Ft Totten 30 #12 of 101 districts in North Dakota (state average 51). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $19,218 per pupil, Ft Totten 30 ranks #46 of 168 North Dakota districts by per-pupil spending (North Dakota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
200
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$19,218
Per-Pupil Spending
High, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Ft Totten 30 operates 2 public schools serving 200 students, placing it among the smallest districts in North Dakota. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high, 1 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 Benson County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $19,218 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 168 North Dakota districts by per-pupil spending. See how North Dakota compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 2.5% local, 27.7% state, and 69.8% federal, an unusually federal-heavy mix, typically a marker of concentrated Title I eligibility or a small district reliant on federal impact-aid programs. The district's equity score is 82/100, ranked #12 of 101 in North Dakota against a state average of 51, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 87.5:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 0.3% White across the district's schools.
Four Winds Community High School accounts for 79.5% of all Ft Totten 30 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Ft Totten 30 a distant remainder — means Ft Totten 30-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Ft Totten 30 has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 100.0% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Eligibility here is a supermajority of the population — well past the 75% concentration-grant threshold that unlocks extra funding on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Ft Totten 30 student-counselor ratio is 88:1 — 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.