At $12,920 per pupil, Sweet Briar 17 ranks #154 of 168 North Dakota districts by per-pupil spending (North Dakota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
25
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$12,920
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Sweet Briar 17 operates 1 public schools serving 25 students, placing it among the smallest districts in North Dakota. The school portfolio breaks down into 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 Morton County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $12,920 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 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 20.6% local, 74.7% state, and 4.8% 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 3.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 100.0% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Sweet Briar School, enrolling 28 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Sweet Briar School accounts for 100.0% of all Sweet Briar 17 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Sweet Briar 17 a distant remainder — means Sweet Briar 17-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: elementary. 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.
Sweet Briar 17 chronic absenteeism rate is 3.6% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 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.