At $28,197 per pupil, Selfridge 8 ranks #11 of 168 North Dakota districts by per-pupil spending (North Dakota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Selfridge 8 operates 2 public schools serving 76 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 Sioux County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $28,197 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 17 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 5.6% local, 52.5% state, and 41.9% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 66.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 1.6% African American, 1.1% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Selfridge Elementary School, enrolling 45 students (60% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 27.6% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (76 to 55 students), and the student-teacher ratio tightened by 1.4 students per teacher as staffing held steadier than enrollment, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $2,528,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 54.2% went to instruction, 25.3% to support services, and 15.2% to capital outlay, a capital-heavy year, consistent with active construction, renovation, or major equipment purchases. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Selfridge Elementary School accounts for 59.2% of all Selfridge 8 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Selfridge 8 a distant remainder — means Selfridge 8-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.
The reported share is above 87.5%, so economic need is widespread across the measured student population. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Selfridge 8 chronic absenteeism rate is 66.7% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 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.