At $12,072 per pupil, Kalon Prep Academy ranks #456 of 509 Minnesota districts by per-pupil spending (Minnesota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Kalon Prep Academy operates 1 public schools serving 138 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Minnesota. The school portfolio breaks down into 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 Douglas County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $12,072 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 509 Minnesota districts by per-pupil spending. See how Minnesota compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 4.5% local, 73.0% state, and 22.5% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 59.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 90.1% White, 4.3% Hispanic or Latino, 2.1% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Kalon Prep Academy, enrolling 141 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 2.2% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (138 to 135 students), and the student-teacher ratio widened by 2.6 students per teacher despite the decline, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $1,968,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 56% went to instruction, 27.1% to support services, and 13.7% 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.
Kalon Prep Academy accounts for 100.0% of all Kalon Prep Academy student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Kalon Prep Academy a distant remainder — means Kalon Prep Academy-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Kalon Prep Academy chronic absenteeism rate is 59.6% — 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.
Kalon Prep Academy has 1 school, including 1 high. Total enrollment is 138 students.
How much does Kalon Prep Academy spend per student?
Kalon Prep Academy spends $12,072 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Kalon Prep Academy?
Kalon Prep Academy students are 90.1% White, 4.3% Hispanic or Latino, 2.1% African American, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.