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Winona, Minnesota - 4 schools
113
Total Enrollment
4
Schools
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Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Hiawatha Valley Education District operates 4 public schools serving 113 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Minnesota. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 combined, 1 high 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 Winona County.
The funding mix is 30.8% local, 41.1% state, and 28.1% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 18.7:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 42.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 85.8% White, 7.2% Hispanic or Latino, 6.0% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is River Valley Academy Alc, with a diversity index of 37.7/100.
Its largest campus is River Valley Academy Alc, enrolling 52 students (43% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Sail Program, at 9 students, a 6x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
River Valley Academy Alc accounts for 42.6% of all Hiawatha Valley Education District student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Hiawatha Valley Education District-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.
Hiawatha Valley Education District school enrollment varies 5.8× across entities
Hiawatha Valley Education District school enrollment ranges from 9 students (lowest) to 52 students (highest), a spread of 43 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Hiawatha Valley Education District student-counselor ratio is 19:1 — 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.
Hiawatha Valley Education District chronic absenteeism rate is 42.9% — 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.
Comparisons are relative to Hiawatha Valley Education District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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How many schools are in Hiawatha Valley Education District?
Hiawatha Valley Education District has 4 schools, including 1 high, 3 combined. Total enrollment is 113 students.
What is the demographic composition of Hiawatha Valley Education District?
Hiawatha Valley Education District students are 85.8% White, 7.2% Hispanic or Latino, 6.0% African American, averaged across 4 schools. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.