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Keshena, Wisconsin - 4 schools
An equity score of 92/100 ranks Menominee Indian School District #4 of 403 districts in Wisconsin (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $22,674 per pupil, Menominee Indian School District ranks #13 of 422 Wisconsin districts by per-pupil spending (Wisconsin districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
987
Total Enrollment
4
Schools
$22,674
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Menominee Indian School District operates 4 public schools serving 987 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Wisconsin. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined, 1 high, 1 middle 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 Menominee County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $22,674 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 43 of 422 Wisconsin districts by per-pupil spending. See how Wisconsin compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 17.0% local, 39.9% state, and 43.1% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 92/100, ranked #4 of 403 in Wisconsin against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 230.3:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 49.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 6.4% Hispanic or Latino, 0.2% White across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Kaehkenawapahtaeq, with a diversity index of 23.9/100.
Its largest campus is Keshena Primary, enrolling 394 students (40% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Kaehkenawapahtaeq, at 30 students, a 13x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Keshena Primary accounts for 39.6% of all Menominee Indian School District student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Menominee Indian School District-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.
Menominee Indian School District school enrollment varies 13× across entities
Menominee Indian School District school enrollment ranges from 30 students (lowest) to 394 students (highest), a spread of 364 students. That spread reflects typical mixed-portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Menominee Indian School District has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 81.5% 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). Areas above 75% eligibility — including this one — receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. 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.
Menominee Indian School District student-counselor ratio is 230:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Menominee Indian School District chronic absenteeism rate is 49.4% — 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.
Comparisons are relative to Menominee Indian School District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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