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Sauk Rapids, Minnesota - 6 schools
An equity score of 45/100 ranks Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools #237 of 410 districts in Minnesota (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $13,440 per pupil, Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools ranks #321 of 504 Minnesota districts by per-pupil spending (Minnesota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
4,423
Total Enrollment
6
Schools
$13,440
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools operates 6 public schools serving 4,423 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Minnesota. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 combined, 1 high, 1 middle, 1 elementary 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 Benton County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $13,440 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 21.6% local, 69.8% state, and 8.6% 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 45/100, ranked #237 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.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 6 schools offering Advanced Placement (5 AP courses district-wide), a 533.9:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 36.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 79.9% White, 5.0% Hispanic or Latino, 4.9% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Hillside Early Childhood Center, with a diversity index of 49.5/100.
Its largest campus is Sauk Rapids-Rice Senior High, enrolling 1,319 students (30% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Hillside Early Childhood Center, at 58 students, a 23x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Sauk Rapids-Rice Senior High accounts for 29.8% of all Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Sauk Rapids-Rice 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.
Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools school enrollment varies 23× across entities
Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools school enrollment ranges from 58 students (lowest) to 1,319 students (highest), a spread of 1,261 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools student-counselor ratio is 534:1 — 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.
Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 36.3% — 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 Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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