An equity score of 46/100 ranks Parkers Prairie Public School Dist. #238 of 410 districts in Minnesota (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $14,673 per pupil, Parkers Prairie Public School Dist. ranks #263 of 509 Minnesota districts by per-pupil spending (Minnesota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Parkers Prairie Public School Dist. operates 2 public schools serving 541 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Minnesota. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 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 Otter Tail County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,673 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 509 Minnesota districts by per-pupil spending. See how Minnesota compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 20.9% local, 68.6% state, and 10.5% 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 46/100, ranked #238 of 410 in Minnesota against a state average of 50, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
and 24.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 96.4% White, 2.3% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Parkers Prairie Secondary, enrolling 280 students (53% of the district's total enrollment).
Parkers Prairie Secondary accounts for 51.8% of all Parkers Prairie Public School Dist. student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Parkers Prairie Public School Dist. a distant remainder — means Parkers Prairie Public School Dist.-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.
Parkers Prairie Public School Dist. chronic absenteeism rate is 24.5% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
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 Variation between sub-units within Parkers Prairie Public School Dist. is typically wider than the Parkers Prairie Public School Dist.-aggregate figure suggests.
Comparisons are relative to Parkers Prairie Public School Dist.'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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