At $87,596 per pupil, Ft Yates 4 ranks #2 of 168 North Dakota districts by per-pupil spending (North Dakota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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Schools
$87,596
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Ft Yates 4 operates 2 public schools serving 52 students, placing it among the smallest districts in North Dakota. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary, 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 Sioux County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $87,596 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 17 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 3.6% local, 43.6% state, and 52.8% federal, an unusually federal-heavy mix, typically a marker of concentrated Title I eligibility or a small district reliant on federal impact-aid programs.
a 28:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 93.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Fort Yates Middle School, enrolling 46 students (82% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Fort Yates Pk School, at 10 students, a 5x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 19.2% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (52 to 62 students), while the student-teacher ratio held roughly steady, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $4,765,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 56.2% went to instruction, 35.8% to support services, and 2% 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.
Fort Yates Middle School accounts for 82.1% of all Ft Yates 4 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Ft Yates 4 a distant remainder — means Ft Yates 4-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.
The reported share is above 87.5%, so economic need is widespread across the measured student population. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Ft Yates 4 student-counselor ratio is 28:1 — 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.
Ft Yates 4 chronic absenteeism rate is 93.5% — 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.