At $26,787 per pupil, Naytahwaush Community School ranks #13 of 509 Minnesota districts by per-pupil spending (Minnesota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Naytahwaush Community School operates 1 public schools serving 136 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Minnesota. 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 Mahnomen County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $26,787 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 51 of 509 Minnesota districts by per-pupil spending. See how Minnesota compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 0.6% local, 53.6% state, and 45.8% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
a 134:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 46.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 1.5% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Naytahwaush Community School, enrolling 134 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 6.6% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (136 to 145 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 1.9 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $4,093,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 57.4% went to instruction, 27.5% to support services, and 6.3% to capital outlay, a fairly typical instruction/support/capital split for a public school district. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Naytahwaush Community School accounts for 98.5% of all Naytahwaush Community School student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Naytahwaush Community School a distant remainder — means Naytahwaush Community School-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.
Naytahwaush Community School reports 78.7% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share is at least 75%, indicating a high concentration of measured economic need. 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.
Naytahwaush Community School student-counselor ratio is 134:1 — 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.
Naytahwaush Community School chronic absenteeism rate is 46.3% — 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.