At $25,817 per pupil, Litchville-Marion 46 ranks #24 of 168 North Dakota districts by per-pupil spending (North Dakota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
142
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$25,817
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Litchville-Marion 46 operates 2 public schools serving 142 students, placing it among the smallest districts in North Dakota. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 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 Lamoure County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $25,817 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 40.9% local, 44.0% state, and 15.1% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 74.5:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 8.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 93.8% White, 1.4% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 2.1% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (142 to 139 students), and the student-teacher ratio held roughly steady, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $5,414,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 28.6% went to instruction, 35.5% to support services, and 30.9% to capital outlay, a capital-heavy year, consistent with active construction, renovation, or major equipment purchases. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Litchville-Marion Elementary School accounts for 55.7% of all Litchville-Marion 46 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Litchville-Marion 46 a distant remainder — means Litchville-Marion 46-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.
Litchville-Marion 46 student-counselor ratio is 75:1 — 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.
Litchville-Marion 46 chronic absenteeism rate is 8.6% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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.