rural/urban enrollment
The numbers are the numbers. In North Dakota

• 45% of North Dakota’s children - 46,725 of them - are enrolled in rural schools
• 72% of public schools are in rural areas
• 43.5% of state education funding goes to rural schools
• 34% of rural students qualify for subsidized meals
• 13% of rural families with school-age children live below the poverty line
• $16,555 is the rural income per capita
• $57,165 is the rural per pupil property wealth – compared with an average $151,164 rural property wealth in all fifty states

Rural American’s are far poorer than the country’s metropolitan areas as a whole, and nearly as poor as the inner cities.