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Warner, South Dakota - 3 schools
An equity score of 32/100 ranks Warner School District 06-5 #93 of 121 districts in South Dakota (state average 51). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $10,594 per pupil, Warner School District 06-5 ranks #120 of 149 South Dakota districts by per-pupil spending (South Dakota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
314
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$10,594
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Warner School District 06-5 operates 3 public schools serving 314 students, placing it among the smallest districts in South Dakota. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary, 1 high, 1 middle 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 Brown County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $10,594 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 149 South Dakota districts by per-pupil spending. See how South Dakota compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 46.8% local, 42.5% state, and 10.7% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 32/100, ranked #93 of 121 in South Dakota against a state average of 51, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 3 schools offering Advanced Placement (4 AP courses district-wide), a 146.9:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 3.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 92.8% White, 3.1% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Warner Middle School - 03, with a diversity index of 15.7/100.
Its largest campus is Warner Elementary - 02, enrolling 145 students (46% of the district's total enrollment).
Warner Elementary - 02 accounts for 46.2% of all Warner School District 06-5 student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Warner School District 06-5 a distant remainder — means Warner School District 06-5-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. 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.
Warner School District 06-5 student-counselor ratio is 147:1 — 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.
Warner School District 06-5 chronic absenteeism rate is 3.0% — 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.