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Niobrara, Nebraska - 3 schools
An equity score of 75/100 ranks Isanti Community School #17 of 200 districts in Nebraska (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $32,558 per pupil, Isanti Community School ranks #3 of 244 Nebraska districts by per-pupil spending (Nebraska districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
239
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$32,558
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Isanti Community School operates 3 public schools serving 239 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Nebraska. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 middle, 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 Knox County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $32,558 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 25 of 244 Nebraska districts by per-pupil spending. See how Nebraska compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 3.3% local, 44.2% state, and 52.5% federal, an unusually federal-heavy mix, typically a marker of concentrated Title I eligibility or a small district reliant on federal impact-aid programs. The district's equity score is 75/100, ranked #17 of 200 in Nebraska against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 186.3:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 49.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 4.8% Hispanic or Latino, 2.5% White, 2.0% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Isanti High School, with a diversity index of 23.1/100.
Its largest campus is Isanti Elementary School, enrolling 120 students (58% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Isanti High School, at 39 students, a 3x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Isanti Elementary School accounts for 50.2% of all Isanti Community School student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Isanti Community School a distant remainder — means Isanti Community School-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
Isanti Community School school enrollment varies 3.1× across entities
Isanti Community School school enrollment ranges from 39 students (lowest) to 120 students (highest), a spread of 81 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.
Isanti Community School student-counselor ratio is 186:1 — 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.
Isanti Community School chronic absenteeism rate is 49.3% — 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.