PINGREE-BUCHANAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PINGREE-BUCHANAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the small elementary campuss in Buchanan, North Dakota, one of the schools within PINGREE-BUCHANAN 10, with 102 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 52% smaller than the state mean of about 212.

Across the 2 schools in PINGREE-BUCHANAN 10 (160 students total), PINGREE-BUCHANAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, PINGREE-BUCHANAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 4% Black, 3% Native American. That composition is broadly in line with Stutsman County as a whole.

On the resource side, The school employs 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 29% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the surrounding community, census data for Stutsman County shows median household income runs about $61,856, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Stutsman County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,531 students), of which PINGREE-BUCHANAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is PINGREE-BUCHANAN HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 8.2 miles away.

PINGREE-BUCHANAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a countryside location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 15%: 89 students in 2018 compared to 102 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 98% to 93% across the same window.

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