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Ramona, South Dakota - 5 schools
At $14,785 per pupil, Oldham - Ramona School District 39-5 ranks #39 of 149 South Dakota districts by per-pupil spending (South Dakota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
157
Total Enrollment
5
Schools
$14,785
Per-Pupil Spending
High, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Oldham - Ramona School District 39-5 operates 5 public schools serving 157 students, placing it among the smallest districts in South Dakota. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 high, 1 combined, 1 elementary, 1 middle 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 Lake County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,785 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 149 South Dakota districts by per-pupil spending. See how South Dakota compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 68.7% local, 22.2% state, and 9.1% 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 8.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Use the school table below to drill into any individual campus for its own demographic and resource profile.
Oldham-Ramona Elementary - 02 accounts for 42.0% of all Oldham - Ramona School District 39-5 student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Oldham - Ramona School District 39-5-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.
Oldham - Ramona School District 39-5 school enrollment varies 5.1× across entities
Oldham - Ramona School District 39-5 school enrollment ranges from 13 students (lowest) to 66 students (highest), a spread of 53 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Oldham - Ramona School District 39-5 chronic absenteeism rate is 8.0% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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.
Comparisons are relative to Oldham - Ramona School District 39-5's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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