High · Regular · Grades 7 to 12

Burke Central High School, Lignite, ND

Burke Central High School is a public high school in Lignite, part of Burke Central 36 School District. It enrolled 43 students in 2024-25, with 8.6 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "BURKE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL".

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 43
Teachers (FTE): 5.0
Students per teacher: 8.6
Grades: 7 to 12

This school's ratio is 0.9 lower than the district figure of 9.5. The North Dakota average across schools is 11.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school8.6

District9.5

North Dakota11.7

United States15.3

School details

Address: 101 4th Avenue W, Lignite, ND 58752
Phone: (701)933-2821
District: Burke Central 36 School District
County: Burke County
Level: High
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Locale: Rural: Remote
NCES school ID: 380359000082

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 6
Reduced-price lunch: 5
Free or reduced-price lunch: 1125.6% of enrollment.
Direct certification: 6Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision: No

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.