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BISMARCK 1

Bismarck, North Dakota · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

14,098
Students enrolled
29
Public schools
969
Classroom teachers (FTE)
14.5:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 338
  • Kindergarten 918
  • Grade 1 999
  • Grade 2 1,059
  • Grade 3 1,141
  • Grade 4 1,088
  • Grade 5 1,067
  • Grade 6 1,064
  • Grade 7 1,086
  • Grade 8 1,040
  • Grade 9 1,123
  • Grade 10 1,067
  • Grade 11 1,104
  • Grade 12 1,004

By race/ethnicity

  • White 75%
  • Two or more races 7%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native 7%
  • Hispanic/Latino 5%
  • Black or African American 3%
  • Asian 2%
  • Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander 1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

24% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 3,278 of 13,749 students in the 25 of its 26 schools that report
  • Free lunch 20%
  • Reduced-price lunch 4%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$15,100 spent per student on day-to-day operations North Dakota median: $17,659 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $9,286
  • Support services $4,582
  • Other (food service, etc.) $1,233

Where the money comes from

  • Local 34%
  • State 56%
  • Federal 9%

Total revenue $239.6 milliontotal spending $239.1 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

PK to 12

Locale (NCES)

City: SmallStudents: 88% city, 12% rural

Total staff (FTE)

2,024

District office

128 Soo Line Dr, Bismarck ND 58501

County

Burleigh County

Official website

NCES District ID

3800014

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About BISMARCK 1

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

Bismarck is the capital city of North Dakota. It's centrally located in the state and bordered on the west by the scenic Missouri River. The Bismarck-Mandan Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) for 2011 shows a population of 106,286, with the incorporated city limits of Bismarck at 61,217 according to the 2009 census estimate.The Bismarck Public School District has been in the education business for over 125 years (since 1873). The first graduating class was in 1887, when two people graduated. In 2010, 840 students graduated. The oldest building is part of BHS, built in 1934, and the newest buildings are Sunrise Elementary School and the Career Academy, which opened in August 2010.We are the largest school districts in the state, with 11,008 students in 2010-11 and 1,751 staff members. We have over 500 classrooms in 16 grade schools, three middle schools,two senior high schools, an alternative high school, a career and technical center, and an early childhood program.
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