At $21,529 per pupil, Sargent Central 6 ranks #39 of 168 North Dakota districts by per-pupil spending (North Dakota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
191
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$21,529
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Sargent Central 6 operates 2 public schools serving 191 students, placing it among the smallest districts in North Dakota. 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 Sargent County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $21,529 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half 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 45.7% local, 44.8% state, and 9.5% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 151:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 20.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 93.6% White, 1.3% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses held roughly steady from 2022-23 to 2023-24 (191 to 190 students, -0.5%), per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $5,033,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 36.7% went to instruction, 36.5% to support services, and 9.9% 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.
Sargent Central Elementary School accounts for 59.7% of all Sargent Central 6 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Sargent Central 6 a distant remainder — means Sargent Central 6-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.
Sargent Central 6 student-counselor ratio is 151:1 — 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.
Sargent Central 6 chronic absenteeism rate is 20.1% — 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 Sargent Central 6 is typically wider than the Sargent Central 6-aggregate figure suggests.