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Grand Marais, Minnesota - 1 schools
At $13,205 per pupil, Great Expectations ranks #344 of 504 Minnesota districts by per-pupil spending (Minnesota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Great Expectations operates 1 public schools serving 136 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Minnesota. The school portfolio breaks down into 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 Cook County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $13,205 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 504 Minnesota districts by per-pupil spending. See how Minnesota compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 2.1% local, 90.3% state, and 7.6% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 46.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 84.1% White, 3.5% Hispanic or Latino, 1.8% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Great Expectations, enrolling 113 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Great Expectations accounts for 83.1% of all Great Expectations student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Great Expectations a distant remainder — means Great Expectations-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.
Great Expectations chronic absenteeism rate is 46.9% — 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.
Great Expectations has 1 school, including 1 elementary. Total enrollment is 136 students.
How much does Great Expectations spend per student?
Great Expectations spends $13,205 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Great Expectations?
Great Expectations students are 84.1% White, 3.5% Hispanic or Latino, 1.8% Asian, 0.9% African American, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.