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Oberon, North Dakota - 1 schools
At $28,782 per pupil, Oberon 16 ranks #10 of 168 North Dakota districts by per-pupil spending (North Dakota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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$28,782
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Oberon 16 operates 1 public schools serving 45 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 Benson County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $28,782 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 14.0% local, 16.3% state, and 69.7% federal, an unusually federal-heavy mix, typically a marker of concentrated Title I eligibility or a small district reliant on federal impact-aid programs.
a 52:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 5.8% Asian, 1.9% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Oberon Elementary School, enrolling 52 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Oberon Elementary School accounts for 100.0% of all Oberon 16 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Oberon 16 a distant remainder — means Oberon 16-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. 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.
Oberon 16 has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 100.0% 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 a supermajority of the population — well past the 75% concentration-grant threshold that unlocks extra funding 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.
Oberon 16 student-counselor ratio is 52:1 — 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.