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Waubun, Minnesota - 4 schools
An equity score of 81/100 ranks Waubun-Ogema-White Earth Schools #28 of 410 districts in Minnesota (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $16,914 per pupil, Waubun-Ogema-White Earth Schools ranks #89 of 504 Minnesota districts by per-pupil spending (Minnesota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Waubun-Ogema-White Earth Schools operates 4 public schools serving 728 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Minnesota. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 combined, 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 Mahnomen County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $16,914 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 504 Minnesota districts by per-pupil spending. See how Minnesota compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 13.1% local, 57.4% state, and 29.5% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 81/100, ranked #28 of 410 in Minnesota against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 4 schools offering Advanced Placement (2 AP courses district-wide), a 428.7:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 55.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 12.5% White, 1.6% Hispanic or Latino, 0.1% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Waubun Secondary, with a diversity index of 41.1/100.
Its largest campus is Waubun Secondary, enrolling 283 students (39% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Waubun Alc, at 31 students, a 9x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Waubun Secondary accounts for 38.9% of all Waubun-Ogema-White Earth Schools student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Waubun-Ogema-White Earth 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.
Waubun-Ogema-White Earth Schools school enrollment varies 9.1× across entities
Waubun-Ogema-White Earth Schools school enrollment ranges from 31 students (lowest) to 283 students (highest), a spread of 252 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.
Waubun-Ogema-White Earth Schools has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 66.4% 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.
Waubun-Ogema-White Earth Schools student-counselor ratio is 429:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Waubun-Ogema-White Earth Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 55.7% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Comparisons are relative to Waubun-Ogema-White Earth Schools's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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