At $42,422 per pupil, Oberon 16 ranks #4 of 168 North Dakota districts by per-pupil spending (North Dakota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
45
Total Enrollment
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$42,422
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
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 $42,422 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).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 24.4% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (45 to 56 students), while the student-teacher ratio held roughly steady, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $2,283,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 38.2% went to instruction, 40.6% to support services, and 9.5% 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.
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 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.
The reported share is above 87.5%, so economic need is widespread across the measured student population. 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.
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.