DES LACS-BURLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL

Located in Des Lacs, North Dakota, DES LACS-BURLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL is a medium-sized high school. It covers grades 7 through 12, with a total enrollment of 294 students. Statewide, high schools in North Dakota average about 220 students each.

DES LACS-BURLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL falls under UNITED 7, which has 2 schools enrolling 709 students.

White students make up 90% of enrollment at DES LACS-BURLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL. The next largest groups are 4% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. In Ward County overall, about 81% of residents are White. Pick two students at random and there is an 18% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

A ratio of 12.5:1 comes from the school's 23.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is 3.6 students per teacher below the 16.1:1 average for high schools in North Dakota. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 16% in 2024-25. That is 15 points below the 31% average for public schools in Ward County.

allk12 grades DES LACS-BURLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL an A. The grade compares the school only with North Dakota public high schools, because each state gives its own test.

Ward County has about 68,973 residents, and the median household income is $78,238, about 30% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. In all, Ward County has 40 public schools and roughly 11,732 students.

BURLINGTON-DES LACS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the public school closest to DES LACS-BURLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL, about 6.2 miles away. The count of other public schools within ten miles is 4.

For locale, NCES codes DES LACS-BURLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL as Rural: Distant.

Enrollment is down 4% from 2020-21, when DES LACS-BURLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL had 307 students, to 2024-25, when it had 294.

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