At $9,967 per pupil, La Crescent Montessori & Stem Schoo ranks #501 of 509 Minnesota districts by per-pupil spending (Minnesota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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Schools
$9,967
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
La Crescent Montessori & Stem Schoo operates 2 public schools serving 91 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Minnesota. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary, 1 combined 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 Houston County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $9,967 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 51 of 509 Minnesota districts by per-pupil spending. See how Minnesota compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 5.4% local, 88.7% state, and 5.9% 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 14.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 92.2% White, 5.0% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
La Crescent Montessori & Stem Acad accounts for 54.5% of all La Crescent Montessori & Stem Schoo student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of La Crescent Montessori & Stem Schoo a distant remainder — means La Crescent Montessori & Stem Schoo-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.
La Crescent Montessori & Stem Schoo chronic absenteeism rate is 14.4% — low (typically associated with lower-than-average attendance disruption; districts in this range often have attendance interventions, robust transportation, or smaller catchments that reduce barriers)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Comparisons are relative to La Crescent Montessori & Stem Schoo's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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