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Grenora, North Dakota - 2 schools
At $25,851 per pupil, Grenora 99 ranks #18 of 168 North Dakota districts by per-pupil spending (North Dakota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
164
Total Enrollment
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$25,851
Per-Pupil Spending
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Grenora 99 operates 2 public schools serving 164 students, placing it among the smallest districts in North Dakota. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 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 Williams County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $25,851 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 66.6% local, 28.7% state, and 4.7% 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 83:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 10.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 88.5% White, 1.2% Hispanic or Latino, 0.6% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Grenora High School, enrolling 83 students (50% of the district's total enrollment).
Grenora High School accounts for 50.0% of all Grenora 99 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Grenora 99 a distant remainder — means Grenora 99-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
Grenora 99 student-counselor ratio is 83:1 — 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.
Grenora 99 chronic absenteeism rate is 10.3% — low (typically associated with lower-than-average attendance disruption; districts in this range often have attendance interventions, robust transportation, or smaller catchments that reduce barriers)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.