Public school / Primary
Pioneer Elementary School
Bismarck, North Dakota
- NCES ID
- 380001400054
- District
- Bismarck 1
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Pioneer Elementary School is a public primary school in Bismarck, North Dakota, run by Bismarck 1. It enrols 213 students — the 76543rd largest of 532 public schools in North Dakota.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
213
Teachers
18.0
Students per teacher
11.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
65.7%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Bismarck 1
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Century High School1,427 students
- 2Legacy High School1,418 students
- 3Bismarck High School1,333 students
- 4Horizon Middle School1,044 students
- 5Simle Middle School1,040 students
- 6Wachter Middle School1,000 students
- 7Lincoln Elementary School650 students
- 8Victor Solheim Elementary School560 students
- Enrollment+21.0%
- Teachers+28.6%
- Students per teacher+1.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+111.9%
Where this sits
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory