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Owatonna Public School District

Owatonna, Minnesota · Public school district · #40 of 147 Minnesota districts by enrollment

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4,890

Students

2024-25 school year

Schools

2024-25 school year

$12,696

Spending per student

FY2020-21 · about the same as the Minnesota median

14.3

Students per teacher

2024-25 · Minnesota median 15.4

Owatonna Public School District is a public school district based in Owatonna, Minnesota, serving 4,890 students in 17 schools. By enrollment it ranks #40 of the 147 Minnesota districts with 1,000 or more students, larger than about 73% of them. Its schools average 288 students each, fewer than the Minnesota median of 381. It spends about $12,696 per student on day-to-day operations, about the state median. It has roughly 14.3 students per teacher.

How Owatonna compares

OwatonnaMinnesota median, districts with 1,000+ students

Spending per student$12,696

Minnesota median $12,893 · about the same · FY2020-21

Instruction spending per student$8,608

Minnesota median $8,231 · about the same · FY2020-21

Students per school288

Minnesota median 381 · 24% below · 2024-25

Students per teacher14.3

Minnesota median 15.4 · 7% below · 2024-25

Students per counselor376

Minnesota median 558 · 33% below · 2024-25

Spending and staffing

Where the money comes from$81.2 million in revenue · FY2020-21

Federal 8%State 67%Local 25%

Measure	Owatonna	Minnesota median	Year
Current spending per student	$12,696	$12,893	FY2020-21
Instruction spending per student	$8,608	$8,231	FY2020-21
Total spending	$83.6 million	n/a	FY2020-21
Total revenue	$81.2 million	n/a	FY2020-21
Teachers (full-time equivalent)	343	n/a	2024-25
Total staff (full-time equivalent)	716	n/a	2024-25
Students per teacher	14.3	15.4	2024-25
Students per counselor	376	558	2024-25

Spending: NCES school district finance survey (F-33), FY2020-21. Staffing and enrollment: NCES Common Core of Data, 2024-25. Via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. The Minnesota median compares districts with 1,000 or more students.

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Peer districts in Minnesota

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District	Students	Schools	Spending per student	Students per teacher	Rank
Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose SchoolsBuffalo	5,175	11	$12,549	17.7	#38
Cambridge-Isanti Public School DistrictCambridge	5,007	18	$10,990	16.4	#39
Owatonna Public School DistrictOwatonna · this district	4,890	17	$12,696	14.3	#40
Bemidji Public School DistrictBemidji	4,722	15	$14,205	14.5	#41
St. Louis Park Public School Dist.Saint Louis Park	4,446	14	$15,700	17.2	#42

Similar-size districts nationally

District	Students	Spending per student	Students per teacher
Avon Grove School DistrictWest Grove, PA	4,896	$14,079	13.9
Lincoln Park School District of the City ofLincoln Park, MI	4,895	$16,167	14.3
Bremen CHSD 228Midlothian, IL	4,885	$18,422	16.4
Nazareth Area School DistrictNazareth, PA	4,885	$16,590	14.3

Peers are the districts closest in enrollment, so they can still differ in many other ways. Enrollment, school counts and phone numbers are from the NCES Common Core of Data, 2024-25.

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