Editing North Dakota (section)

===Primary and secondary education===
{{see also|List of school districts in North Dakota|List of high schools in North Dakota}}
There were 142 schools in North Dakota cities and 4,722 [[one room schools]] in the state in 1917. The urban schools had 36,008 students, and 83,167 students attended the one room schools. 1,889 of the one room schools closed between 1929 and 1954. In 1954 North Dakotan cities had 513 schools while 2,447 one room schools were in the state. At that time the urban schools had 94,019 students while the one room schools had 25,212 students.<ref>{{cite news|title=Population shifts to cities|newspaper=[[The Bismarck Tribune]]|place=[[Bismarck, North Dakota]]|date=August 20, 1955|page=8}} - [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83533582/for-north-dakota/ Clipping from] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816041753/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83533582/for-north-dakota/ |date=August 16, 2021 }} [[Newspapers.com]].</ref> [[The Nation's Report Card]] ranks North Dakota fifteenth in the country in K-12 education based on standardized test scores.<ref>{{Cite web|title=NAEP State Profiles|url=https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/profiles/stateprofile|access-date=September 6, 2021|website=www.nationsreportcard.gov|language=en-US|archive-date=September 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210905092005/https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/profiles/stateprofile|url-status=live}}</ref>