KENSAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 803 1st Ave, in Kensal, North Dakota, KENSAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a rural-scale elementary-level community that hosts 28 students (grades pre-K through 6), part of KENSAL 19. That puts it 87% below the typical public school in North Dakota, which averages around 212 students.

Operationally, KENSAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL answers to KENSAL 19, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

For racial and ethnic makeup, KENSAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 7% Native American. That composition is broadly in line with Stutsman County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 5.6:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Stutsman County) records that the typical household earns roughly $61,856 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Stutsman County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,531 students), KENSAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

PINGREE-BUCHANAN HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 12.7 miles from this campus.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. KENSAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 40% since 2018, when it stood at 47 (now 28). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 10.2:1 in 2018 to 5.6:1 today.

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