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Harrison, Nebraska - 4 schools
At $31,330 per pupil, Sioux County Public Schools ranks #6 of 244 Nebraska districts by per-pupil spending (Nebraska districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
4
Schools
$31,330
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Sioux County Public Schools operates 4 public schools serving 89 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Nebraska. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 combined, 1 high 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 $31,330 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 25 of 244 Nebraska districts by per-pupil spending. See how Nebraska compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 81.9% local, 13.7% state, and 4.4% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 48:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 23.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 83.0% White, 14.8% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Sioux County High School, with a diversity index of 44.9/100.
Its largest campus is Harrison Grade School, enrolling 32 students (41% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Pink School, at 6 students, a 5x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Harrison Grade School accounts for 36.0% of all Sioux County Public Schools student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Sioux County Public Schools-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
Sioux County Public Schools school enrollment varies 5.3× across entities
Sioux County Public Schools school enrollment ranges from 6 students (lowest) to 32 students (highest), a spread of 26 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Sioux County Public Schools student-counselor ratio is 48:1 — 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.
Sioux County Public Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 23.4% — 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 Sioux County Public Schools is typically wider than the Sioux County Public Schools-aggregate figure suggests.