At $19,931 per pupil, Life Prep ranks #54 of 509 Minnesota districts by per-pupil spending (Minnesota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
174
Total Enrollment
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Schools
$19,931
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Life Prep operates 1 public schools serving 174 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Minnesota. The school portfolio breaks down into 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 Ramsey County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $19,931 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 509 Minnesota districts by per-pupil spending. See how Minnesota compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 1.3% local, 73.5% state, and 25.2% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
a 134:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 69.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 56.0% African American, 19.4% Asian, 8.2% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Life Prep, enrolling 134 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Life Prep accounts for 77.0% of all Life Prep student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Life Prep a distant remainder — means Life Prep-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.
The reported share is at least 75%, indicating a high concentration of measured economic need. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Life Prep student-counselor ratio is 134:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Life Prep chronic absenteeism rate is 69.4% — 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.
Life Prep has 1 school, including 1 combined. Total enrollment is 174 students.
How much does Life Prep spend per student?
Life Prep spends $19,931 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Life Prep?
Life Prep students are 56.0% African American, 19.4% Asian, 8.2% Hispanic or Latino, 6.0% White, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.