Mandan
Six Districts, Half the State
North Dakota has 165 school districts. Six of them, Bismarck, West Fargo, Fargo, Grand Forks, Minot, and Mandan, now enroll 57,254 students, or 49.2% of the state's 116,365 total. The remaining 159 di...
Bismarck-Mandan's 18-Year Growth Engine Stalls
For 18 years, the Bismarck-Mandan corridor grew. The two districts on opposite banks of the Missouri added students nearly every year, first on the strength of the Bakken oil boom, then as state gover...
Three in Four North Dakota Ninth Graders Now Earn a Diploma on Time, Down from Nearly Nine in Ten
In 2012, nearly every ninth grader in North Dakota made it to senior year. Of the 7,462 students who started high school that fall, 7,427 were still enrolled as twelfth graders four years later -- a 9...
Fargo and West Fargo Both Hit All-Time Low Graduation Rates as the Metro Booms
Drive 10 minutes in any direction around Fargo and you will pass new subdivisions, school construction sites, and help-wanted signs. The metro area has been one of North Dakota's economic success stor...
6,336 Students Below the Trend Line
Between 2008 and 2019, North Dakota added an average of 1,526 students a year. The Bakken oil boom filled western classrooms. Fargo's suburbs pushed east. Enrollment climbed from 94,052 to 110,842, a ...
89% to 82%: North Dakota's Graduation Rate Collapse
North Dakota graduated 89.0% of its high school seniors in 2020. Four years later, that number is 82.4%. The state has not posted a single year of improvement since.