Lake Agassiz Education Cooperative operates 3 public schools serving 77 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Minnesota. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 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 Clay County.
The funding mix is 31.8% local, 40.5% state, and 27.7% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 41.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 80.0% White, 6.0% Hispanic or Latino, 0.3% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Intensive Interagency Program, with a diversity index of 49.1/100.
Lake Agassiz Education Cooperative accounts for 76.9% of all Lake Agassiz Education Cooperative student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Lake Agassiz Education Cooperative a distant remainder — means Lake Agassiz Education Cooperative-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.
Lake Agassiz Education Cooperative school enrollment varies 6.9× across entities
Lake Agassiz Education Cooperative school enrollment ranges from 15 students (lowest) to 103 students (highest), a spread of 88 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.
Lake Agassiz Education Cooperative chronic absenteeism rate is 41.5% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Comparisons are relative to Lake Agassiz Education Cooperative's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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How many schools are in Lake Agassiz Education Cooperative?
Lake Agassiz Education Cooperative has 3 schools, including 3 combined. Total enrollment is 77 students.
What is the demographic composition of Lake Agassiz Education Cooperative?
Lake Agassiz Education Cooperative students are 80.0% White, 6.0% Hispanic or Latino, 0.3% African American, averaged across 3 schools. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.