U.S. school systems/North Dakota
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North Dakota school systems.

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172school systems
511operating schools connected
119,016students in finance records
164complete 2019–2024 finance trends
0governance layers connected
What changed from 2019 to 2024?

North Dakota school finance after inflation.

Follow a consistent set of 164 systems across all six Census years. Dollar changes are converted with the national CPI-U annual average so a nominal increase is not mistaken for a real increase.

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2024 median spending / pupil$17,656Median of complete system records
Median change after inflation-4.4%Current spending per pupil · 2024 dollars
Median nominal change+17.3%Before the CPI-U adjustment
Aggregate enrollment change+4.7%Same complete systems in every year
Enrollment in consistently reporting systems164 systems in every year
201920202021202220232024112,546107,458
Current spending per pupil in 2024 dollarsWeighted by the enrollment attached to each spending record
201920202021202220232024$17,115$16,293

School finance: U.S. Census Bureau Annual Survey of School System Finances · inflation adjustment: BLS CPI-U series CUUR0000SA0, annual U.S. city average. This is a purchasing-power comparison, not a performance grade or local cost-of-living estimate.

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Oberon 16

Oberon, ND

Students
56
Schools
1
Spending / pupil
$39,625

+62.5% spending / pupil after inflation · -12.5% enrollment

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Menoken 33

Menoken, ND

Students
55
Schools
1
Spending / pupil
$15,327

+4.5% spending / pupil after inflation · +25.0% enrollment

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Selfridge 8

Selfridge, ND

Students
55
Schools
2
Spending / pupil
$61,345

+39.9% spending / pupil after inflation · -6.8% enrollment

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Twin Buttes 37

Halliday, ND

Students
55
Schools
1
Spending / pupil
$37,600

-33.1% spending / pupil after inflation · +48.6% enrollment

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Starkweather 44

Starkweather, ND

Students
47
Schools
2
Spending / pupil
$30,745

+14.8% spending / pupil after inflation · -16.1% enrollment

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Little Heart 4

Saint Anthony, ND

Students
31
Schools
1
Spending / pupil
$12,935

-28.6% spending / pupil after inflation · +40.9% enrollment

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Sweet Briar 17

Mandan, ND

Students
30
Schools
1
Spending / pupil
$10,767

-19.9% spending / pupil after inflation · +36.4% enrollment

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Kensal 19

Kensal, ND

Students
29
Schools
2
Spending / pupil
$28,034

+57.2% spending / pupil after inflation · -44.2% enrollment

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Zeeland 4

Zeeland, ND

Students
28
Schools
2
Spending / pupil
$41,464

+4.9% spending / pupil after inflation · -9.7% enrollment

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Lone Tree 6

Golva, ND

Students
26
Schools
1
Spending / pupil
$31,538

+9.2% spending / pupil after inflation · -13.3% enrollment

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Sterling 35

Sterling, ND

Students
21
Schools
1
Spending / pupil
$26,905

-30.0% spending / pupil after inflation · +10.5% enrollment

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Edmore 2

Edmore, ND

Students
18
Schools
0
Spending / pupil
$78,389

+100.4% spending / pupil after inflation · -64.0% enrollment

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Naughton 25

Bismarck, ND

Students
17
Schools
1
Spending / pupil
$19,647

-26.1% spending / pupil after inflation · +88.9% enrollment

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Ft Ransom 6

Fort Ransom, ND

Students
16
Schools
1
Spending / pupil
$34,250

+41.0% spending / pupil after inflation · -33.3% enrollment

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Manning 45

Bismarck, ND

Students
15
Schools
1
Spending / pupil
$17,800

-19.0% spending / pupil after inflation · +36.4% enrollment

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Marmarth 12

Marmarth, ND

Students
14
Schools
1
Spending / pupil
$28,571

-9.5% spending / pupil after inflation · -6.7% enrollment

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Horse Creek 32

Cartwright, ND

Students
8
Schools
1
Spending / pupil
$32,125

+27.3% spending / pupil after inflation · +14.3% enrollment

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Minot Afb 160

Minot, ND

Students
0
Schools
0
Spending / pupil
$0

Not available spending / pupil after inflation · Not available enrollment

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Bakker Sch Dist 10

HAGUE, ND

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Earl Sch Dist 18

SIDNEY, ND

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Grand Forks Afb Sch Dist 140

GRAND FORKS, ND

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Halliday Pub Sch Dist 19

HALLIDAY, ND

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Final 2024–25 NCES agency and school directories are joined by exact agency ID. Census school-finance records for 2019–2024 are connected only by exact Census PID6 or NCES LEAID and remain nominal dollars. Board coverage is added only from an official state or district source.