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Mandaree, North Dakota - 2 schools
At $28,781 per pupil, Mandaree 36 ranks #11 of 168 North Dakota districts by per-pupil spending (North Dakota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
179
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$28,781
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 $28,781 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 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.
Mandaree 36 has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 62.5% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Eligibility here is approaching the 75% concentration-grant threshold; it does not yet unlock the extra funding tier but sits meaningfully above the baseline 50% majority mark. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
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.