At $25,020 per pupil, North Lakeland School District ranks #10 of 423 Wisconsin districts by per-pupil spending (Wisconsin districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
North Lakeland School District operates 1 public schools serving 153 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Wisconsin. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined 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 Vilas County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $25,020 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 43 of 423 Wisconsin districts by per-pupil spending. See how Wisconsin compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 76.4% local, 12.8% state, and 10.8% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
and 41.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 92.4% White, 1.3% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is North Lakeland Elementary, enrolling 158 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 5.2% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (153 to 145 students), and the student-teacher ratio held roughly steady, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $4,480,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 45.5% went to instruction, 35.6% to support services, and 3% to capital outlay, support-services-heavy relative to typical districts, reflecting spending on transportation, administration, or student services. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
North Lakeland Elementary accounts for 100.0% of all North Lakeland School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of North Lakeland School District a distant remainder — means North Lakeland School District-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.
North Lakeland School District chronic absenteeism rate is 41.8% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Comparisons are relative to North Lakeland School District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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