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Lamoure, North Dakota - 3 schools
An equity score of 73/100 ranks Lamoure 8 #19 of 101 districts in North Dakota (state average 51). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $16,909 per pupil, Lamoure 8 ranks #84 of 168 North Dakota districts by per-pupil spending (North Dakota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
260
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$16,909
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Lamoure 8 operates 3 public schools serving 260 students, placing it among the smallest districts in North Dakota. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 high, 1 elementary 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 Lamoure County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $16,909 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 168 North Dakota districts by per-pupil spending. See how North Dakota compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 36.1% local, 49.4% state, and 14.5% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 73/100, ranked #19 of 101 in North Dakota against a state average of 51, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 210.7:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 18.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 94.3% White, 2.8% Hispanic or Latino, 1.4% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Lamoure Elementary School, with a diversity index of 19.0/100.
Its largest campus is Lamoure Elementary School, enrolling 157 students (53% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Lamoure Colony School, at 21 students, a 7x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Lamoure Elementary School accounts for 53.2% of all Lamoure 8 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Lamoure 8 a distant remainder — means Lamoure 8-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.
Lamoure 8 school enrollment varies 7.5× across entities
Lamoure 8 school enrollment ranges from 21 students (lowest) to 157 students (highest), a spread of 136 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.
Lamoure 8 student-counselor ratio is 211:1 — 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.
Lamoure 8 chronic absenteeism rate is 18.8% — 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 Lamoure 8 is typically wider than the Lamoure 8-aggregate figure suggests.