NORTH SARGENT HIGH SCHOOL

NORTH SARGENT HIGH SCHOOL is one of the very small high schools in Gwinner, North Dakota, overseen by NORTH SARGENT 3, with 64 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 71% leaner than the typical public school in North Dakota, which averages around 220 students.

NORTH SARGENT 3 comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 195 students; NORTH SARGENT HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, NORTH SARGENT HIGH SCHOOL shows that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 9% Hispanic, 3% Black.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 5.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.1:1 average. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Sargent County's rate of about 34%.

In the surrounding community, Sargent County reports that median household earnings sit near $77,946, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Across Sargent County's 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 549 students), NORTH SARGENT HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

NORTH SARGENT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at NORTH SARGENT HIGH SCHOOL has decreased 7%, going from 69 students in 2018 to 64 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 100% to 86% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 8.2:1 in 2018 to 5.8:1 today.

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