At $20,103 per pupil, Hoven School District 53-2 ranks #8 of 149 South Dakota districts by per-pupil spending (South Dakota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
117
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$20,103
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Hoven School District 53-2 operates 3 public schools serving 117 students, placing it among the smallest districts in South Dakota. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 high, 1 middle 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 Potter County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $20,103 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 15 of 149 South Dakota districts by per-pupil spending. See how South Dakota compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 78.3% local, 7.9% state, and 13.8% 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 172.5:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 22.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 96.0% White across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Hoven Jr. High - 03, with a diversity index of 13.2/100.
Its largest campus is Hoven Elementary - 02, enrolling 69 students (62% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Hoven Jr. High - 03, at 14 students, a 5x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Hoven Elementary - 02 accounts for 59.0% of all Hoven School District 53-2 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Hoven School District 53-2 a distant remainder — means Hoven School District 53-2-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.
Hoven School District 53-2 school enrollment varies 4.9× across entities
Hoven School District 53-2 school enrollment ranges from 14 students (lowest) to 69 students (highest), a spread of 55 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.
Hoven School District 53-2 student-counselor ratio is 173:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Hoven School District 53-2 chronic absenteeism rate is 22.0% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
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 Variation between sub-units within Hoven School District 53-2 is typically wider than the Hoven School District 53-2-aggregate figure suggests.