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Cartwright, North Dakota - 1 schools
At $13,500 per pupil, Horse Creek 32 ranks #139 of 168 North Dakota districts by per-pupil spending (North Dakota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
12
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$13,500
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Horse Creek 32 operates 1 public schools serving 12 students, placing it among the smallest districts in North Dakota. 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 Mckenzie County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $13,500 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower 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 92.4% local, 5.2% state, and 2.4% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
. Demographically, the student body averages 100.0% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Horse Creek School, enrolling 11 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Horse Creek School accounts for 91.7% of all Horse Creek 32 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Horse Creek 32 a distant remainder — means Horse Creek 32-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.