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Buffalo, Minnesota - 2 schools
93
Total Enrollment
2
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Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Wright Technical Center operates 2 public schools serving 93 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Minnesota. The school portfolio breaks down into 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 Wright County.
The funding mix is 79.9% local, 6.4% state, and 13.6% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 84:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 87.0% White, 7.4% Hispanic or Latino, 2.5% African American across the district's schools.
Wright Technical Center Alc accounts for 87.1% of all Wright Technical Center student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Wright Technical Center a distant remainder — means Wright Technical Center-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Wright Technical Center student-counselor ratio is 84:1 — 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.
Wright Technical Center has 2 schools, including 1 high, 1 middle. Total enrollment is 93 students.
What is the demographic composition of Wright Technical Center?
Wright Technical Center students are 87.0% White, 7.4% Hispanic or Latino, 2.5% African American, averaged across 2 schools. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.