Enrollment
11
North Dakota · 2024-25 NCES data
Elementary school (grades K-5) · Cartwright, ND
Horse Creek School
Federal NCES profile for Horse Creek School, including enrollment, faculty, free-lunch eligibility, demographics, and resource indicators - Resource Investment Index 43/100.
2024-25 NCES dataElementary school (grades K-5)NCES 380981000305
👥 S:T ratio 56
🌟 Gifted program 30
Scored 0–100 from federal NCES and CRDC indicators, resource allocation, not test scores. Full methodology →
The verdict
Horse Creek School earns 43/100 on the Resource Investment Index, with class sizes near the North Dakota median. It is also one of the smallest schools in North Dakota.
- 43
- Resource Index · Typical
- 11:1
- students per teacher
- 11
- students enrolled
Horse Creek School has class sizes near the North Dakota median. Computed live against every North Dakota school reporting to NCES.
School address
District: Horse Creek 32 · North Dakota
NCES ID 380981000305 Verify on NCES CCD record →
Teachers (FTE)
1.0
Federal CCD staff survey
Students per teacher
11:1
vs 11.8:1 North Dakota avg
-7% vs state
Student-teacher ratio in context
How Horse Creek School compares with North Dakota and U.S. medians
What stands out at Horse Creek School
Scale and staffing sit near the state mainstream
Horse Creek School is neither an extreme outlier in enrollment nor in student-teacher ratio among North Dakota schools. Its profile therefore turns on the other dimensions rather than on scale alone: economic need, counselor coverage, program access, attendance, and district finance. This middle placement is useful because it prevents the campus from being mislabeled as unusually large, small, crowded, or teacher-dense when the federal comparison does not support that claim.
Student support operates inside a leaner district budget
Horse Creek School's district reports $13,500 in per-pupil expenditure, at least 15% below the North Dakota average of $18,450. That district-wide constraint gives the campus-level support fields added meaning: counselor loads, specialist staffing, and program access are being reported within a comparatively lean spending environment. F-33 does not publish this school's own budget, so the comparison describes district context rather than dollars assigned to this building.
Horse Creek School is a small elementary school in Cartwright, North Dakota, enrolling 11 students.
At 11:1, its student-teacher ratio sits close to the North Dakota median, within a few percentage points of the 11.8:1 state norm, neither notably crowded nor notably small.
This is a small campus: fewer students than 98% of North Dakota schools, with 11 enrolled.
Its Resource Investment Index lands in the lower third of 498 scored North Dakota schools.
Its student body is predominantly White (100% of enrollment), among the less diverse in the state (diversity index 0/100).
The surrounding Horse Creek 32 spends $13,500 per pupil, 27% below the North Dakota average, a leaner-resourced district than most.
Horse Creek 32 operates only this one school, so Horse Creek School has no district-mates to compare against locally. At 11 students, it is also a small operation, on the smaller end of North Dakota's single-school districts.
Sourced from NCES CCD, CRDC, and F-33 (federal records, not a quality verdict). How we source and compute this.
Source: National Center for Education Statistics Common Core of Data + CRDC + F-33 · 2024-25
How Horse Creek School compares
Horse Creek School on the metrics families compare, against North Dakota and U.S. means.
| Metric | This school | vs North Dakota | North Dakota avg | U.S. avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Students per teacher | 11:1 | ▼ 7% | 11.8:1 | 15.7:1 |
| Enrollment | 11 | top 98% | - | - |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data School-level CCD + state/national means from Public School Universe · 2024-25
11:1
Leaner classes than 83% of US schools, among the more generously staffed nationally.
11
Bigger than 2% of US schools by enrollment, a small campus.
Equity indicators (what these measure)
Staffing depth
11:1
students per teacher
- 7% below state mean
Top 45% in North Dakota - lower ratio than 55% of state schools
Well under the widely cited 15:1 individualized-attention benchmark, among the leaner class loads nationally.
Funding equity
$13,500
per pupil, district-wide
- below North Dakota avg of $18,450
Somewhat below the U.S. average per-pupil spend; funding constraints may affect programs, facilities, and staffing.
Support staff
Counselors0.0 FTE
Student-support staffing from the Civil Rights Data Collection.
Discipline context
0
in-school suspensions + 0 out-of-school
Suspension rate: 0.0 per 100 students. Combined in-school and out-of-school rate: 0.0 per 100 students. Reported via the Civil Rights Data Collection.
Student demographics
White 100.0%
Largest group: White at 100.0% of enrollment.
Student-body diversity index 0.0/100
Simpson diversity index - at 0.0, Horse Creek School is less mixed than the North Dakota school average of 29.7.
Programs
Funding & spending
District-wide per-pupil expenditure for Horse Creek 32, which includes Horse Creek School.
$13,500
Per student
-27%
vs North Dakota
Avg $18,450
-19%
vs U.S.
Avg $16,593
Revenue mix
Local 92.4%
State 5.2%
Federal 2.4%
Source: NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey District-level finance · FY 2021-22 Per-pupil expenditure reflects the district-wide average. Individual school budgets are not reported at the federal level.
Similar elementary schools statewide
Matched by enrollment size and by staffing ratio across all of North Dakota, not just this city - a different peer set than the local comparisons above.
Similar enrollment (~11 students)
Next steps
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Frequently asked questions about Horse Creek School
How many students attend Horse Creek School?
Horse Creek School has 11 students enrolled. It is an elementary school in Cartwright, ND.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Horse Creek School?
The student-teacher ratio at Horse Creek School is 11:1, which is 7% lower than the North Dakota average of 11.8:1 and 30% lower than the national average of 15.7:1. Lower ratios generally mean more individual attention per student.
What is the racial and ethnic makeup of Horse Creek School?
The largest demographic group at Horse Creek School is White at 100.0% of enrollment, in Cartwright, ND.
What is the Resource Investment Index for Horse Creek School?
Horse Creek School has a Resource Investment Index of 43/100 (typical reported resources relative to schools nationally) based on 2 factors: student-teacher ratio, gifted-program reporting. Not a test-score or academic measure (national median ~41/100, see methodology). Limited indicators were available, so the index reflects partial data.
What other schools are in Horse Creek 32?
None reported; Horse Creek 32 operates only Horse Creek School as a public school district in NCES's records.
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