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Ogilvie, Minnesota - 3 schools
An equity score of 65/100 ranks Ogilvie Public School District #97 of 410 districts in Minnesota (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $14,259 per pupil, Ogilvie Public School District ranks #246 of 504 Minnesota districts by per-pupil spending (Minnesota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
522
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$14,259
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Ogilvie Public School District operates 3 public schools serving 522 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Minnesota. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined, 1 high 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 Kanabec County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,259 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 504 Minnesota districts by per-pupil spending. See how Minnesota compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 17.1% local, 68.5% state, and 14.4% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 65/100, ranked #97 of 410 in Minnesota against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 206:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 30.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 98.2% White, 0.3% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Ogilvie Elementary, with a diversity index of 5.9/100.
Its largest campus is Ogilvie Elementary, enrolling 264 students (56% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Lion Program-Alternative Education, at 2 students, a 132x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Ogilvie Elementary accounts for 50.6% of all Ogilvie Public School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Ogilvie Public School District a distant remainder — means Ogilvie Public 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.
Ogilvie Public School District school enrollment varies 132× across entities
Ogilvie Public School District school enrollment ranges from 2 students (lowest) to 264 students (highest), a spread of 262 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Ogilvie Public School District student-counselor ratio is 206:1 — 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.
Ogilvie Public School District chronic absenteeism rate is 30.5% — 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 Ogilvie Public School District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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