At $17,983 per pupil, Hatton Eielson 7 ranks #72 of 168 North Dakota districts by per-pupil spending (North Dakota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
178
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$17,983
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Hatton Eielson 7 operates 2 public schools serving 178 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 Traill County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,983 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 38.7% local, 48.8% state, and 12.5% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 157:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 13.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 89.1% White, 7.2% Hispanic or Latino, 0.6% African American across the district's schools.
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 6.7% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (178 to 166 students), and the student-teacher ratio held roughly steady, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $3,610,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 52.9% went to instruction, 27.4% to support services, and 1.8% to capital outlay, a fairly typical instruction/support/capital split for a public school district. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Hatton Eielson Elementary School accounts for 46.6% of all Hatton Eielson 7 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Hatton Eielson 7 a distant remainder — means Hatton Eielson 7-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. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.
Hatton Eielson 7 student-counselor ratio is 157:1 — 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.
Hatton Eielson 7 chronic absenteeism rate is 13.6% — 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.