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Bismarck, North Dakota - 1 schools
At $18,368 per pupil, Manning 45 ranks #61 of 168 North Dakota districts by per-pupil spending (North Dakota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
21
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$18,368
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Manning 45 operates 1 public schools serving 21 students, placing it among the smallest districts in North Dakota. The school portfolio breaks down into 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 Burleigh County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $18,368 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 13.0% local, 59.8% state, and 27.2% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 50.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 91.7% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Manning Elementary School, enrolling 12 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Manning Elementary School accounts for 57.1% of all Manning 45 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Manning 45 a distant remainder — means Manning 45-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: elementary. 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.
Manning 45 chronic absenteeism rate is 50.0% — 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.