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Public Schools in North Dakota

499 schools · 170 districts · 118,375 students

56%
Average
Avg Proficiency
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Largest Schools in North Dakota

School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.

West Fargo Sheyenne High School

West Fargo

1,473 students

Century High School

Bismarck

1,427 students

West Fargo High School

West Fargo

1,423 students

Legacy High School

Bismarck

1,418 students

Fargo Davies High School

Fargo

1,363 students

Williston High School

Williston

1,363 students

Bismarck High School

Bismarck

1,333 students

Mandan High School

Mandan

1,138 students

Red River High School

Grand Forks

1,137 students

Liberty Middle School

West Fargo

1,102 students

Frequently Asked Questions

North Dakota has 499 public schools across 170 districts, serving 118,375 students.

The largest school in North Dakota is West Fargo Sheyenne High School with 1,473 students. North Dakota has 499 public schools overall.

The average proficiency rate is 56%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.

All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.

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School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.

The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.

Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.

For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.