Southern Plains Education Coop. operates 4 public schools serving 112 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Minnesota. The school portfolio breaks down into 4 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 Martin County.
The funding mix is 43.9% local, 35.2% state, and 20.9% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 47:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 71.7% White, 18.6% Hispanic or Latino, 2.9% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Southern Plains Education Coop., with a diversity index of 55.9/100.
Southern Plains Area Learning Cntr. accounts for 42.0% of all Southern Plains Education Coop. student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Southern Plains Education Coop.-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. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.
Southern Plains Education Coop. school enrollment varies 9.4× across entities
Southern Plains Education Coop. school enrollment ranges from 5 students (lowest) to 47 students (highest), a spread of 42 students. That spread reflects typical mixed-portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. 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.
Southern Plains Education Coop. student-counselor ratio is 47:1 — 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.
Comparisons are relative to Southern Plains Education Coop.'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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