At $38,659 per pupil, Mandaree 36 ranks #6 of 168 North Dakota districts by per-pupil spending (North Dakota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
179
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$38,659
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Mandaree 36 operates 2 public schools serving 179 students, placing it among the smallest districts in North Dakota. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 high 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 Mckenzie County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $38,659 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 17 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 41.6% local, 18.8% state, and 39.6% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
and 47.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 5.2% Hispanic or Latino, 4.1% Asian, 0.3% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Mandaree Elementary School, enrolling 136 students (67% of the district's total enrollment).
Mandaree Elementary School accounts for 67.0% of all Mandaree 36 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Mandaree 36 a distant remainder — means Mandaree 36-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 sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. 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.
Mandaree 36 chronic absenteeism rate is 47.6% — 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.