West Central Education District operates 3 public schools serving 76 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Minnesota. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 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 Stearns County.
The funding mix is 44.0% local, 24.5% state, and 31.5% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
. Demographically, the student body averages 62.9% White, 26.9% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Beacon Program W Central Ed. Dist., with a diversity index of 62.0/100.
West Central Education District B-2 accounts for 61.7% of all West Central Education District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of West Central Education District a distant remainder — means West Central Education District-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. 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.
West Central Education District school enrollment varies 5.0× across entities
West Central Education District school enrollment ranges from 10 students (lowest) to 50 students (highest), a spread of 40 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Comparisons are relative to West Central Education District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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