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Pequot Lakes, Minnesota - 3 schools
An equity score of 23/100 ranks Pequot Lakes Public Schools #381 of 410 districts in Minnesota (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $11,713 per pupil, Pequot Lakes Public Schools ranks #451 of 504 Minnesota districts by per-pupil spending (Minnesota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,797
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$11,713
Per-Pupil Spending
High, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Pequot Lakes Public Schools operates 3 public schools serving 1,797 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Minnesota. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high, 1 elementary, 1 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 Crow Wing County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $11,713 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 504 Minnesota districts by per-pupil spending. See how Minnesota compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 28.4% local, 58.8% state, and 12.7% 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 23/100, ranked #381 of 410 in Minnesota against a state average of 50, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 3 schools offering Advanced Placement (3 AP courses district-wide), a 590:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 31.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 94.8% White, 1.9% Hispanic or Latino, 0.7% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Pequot Lakes Middle, with a diversity index of 11.4/100.
Its largest campus is Pequot Lakes Senior High, enrolling 599 students (34% of the district's total enrollment).
Pequot Lakes Senior High accounts for 33.3% of all Pequot Lakes Public Schools student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Pequot Lakes Public Schools-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Pequot Lakes Public Schools student-counselor ratio is 590:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Pequot Lakes Public Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 31.4% — 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.