Adams Elementary

As a close-knit elementary school in FERGUS FALLS, Minnesota, Adams Elementary works with 254 students from grades 1 through 3, run under Fergus Falls Public School District. Enrollment runs roughly 26% smaller than the state mean of about 344.

Fergus Falls Public School District comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 3,235 students; Adams Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Adams Elementary logs that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 7% multiracial, 4% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Adams Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 35% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Adams Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Minnesota public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 46.0%; Adams Elementary posts 59.6%, +13.6 points above that line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Otter Tail County indicate the typical household earns roughly $72,255 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Adams Elementary is one of 37 public schools in Otter Tail County (combined enrollment of about 8,503 students).

The closest other public school is McKinley Elementary, roughly 1.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Adams Elementary. On composite proficiency, Adams Elementary comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 54.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Adams Elementary's enrollment has declined 22% since 2018, when it stood at 324 (now 254). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 92% to 86%. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.

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