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Walker, Minnesota - 1 schools
11
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Up North Learning Center operates 1 public schools serving 11 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Minnesota. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 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 Cass County.
The funding mix is 68.1% local, 31.9% state, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
. Demographically, the student body averages 53.8% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Up North Learning Center, enrolling 13 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Up North Learning Center accounts for 100.0% of all Up North Learning Center student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Up North Learning Center a distant remainder — means Up North Learning Center-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.
Up North Learning Center has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 72.7% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Eligibility here is approaching the 75% concentration-grant threshold; it does not yet unlock the extra funding tier but sits meaningfully above the baseline 50% majority mark. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.