Enrollment
229
Elementary
DISTRICT 222 · STATE 344
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALDEN-CONGER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 270303000079
ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY
215 N BROADWAY, ALDEN, MN 56009 · (507) 874-3240 · Freeborn County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY42-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL229 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 20% of Minnesota public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Minnesota public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
34%
79 students
DISTRICT 32% · STATE 48%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 2 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 26 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 34 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 33 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 34 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 31 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 32 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 37 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (26) is 30% smaller than its 6th grade class (37).
Student demographics
19%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 16% · STATE 60% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY→ALDEN-CONGER SECONDARY
Based on grade levels within ALDEN-CONGER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsEnglish Language Arts
43.0%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
38.8%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
Source: MCA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
38.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.5%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Minnesota's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY
ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY's state test result (38.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY this school | 229 | 34.5% | 38.1% |
| WIN-E-MAC ELEMENTARY ERSKINE | 247 | 33.6% | 52.2% |
| Adams Elementary FERGUS FALLS | 254 | 35.4% | 59.6% |
| WATERVILLE ELEMENTARY WATERVILLE | 264 | 35.6% | 42.1% |
| WABASHA-KELLOGG ELEMENTARY WABASHA | 205 | 36.6% | 46.0% |
| BATTLE LAKE ELEMENTARY BATTLE LAKE | 230 | 31.7% | 62.8% |
Matched among Minnesota elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In Freeborn County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.1% | #567 of 844 | #2 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.8% | #596 of 844 | #4 of 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #538 of 844 | #2 of 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 229 | #759 of 1,130 | #5 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.0:1 | #38 of 769 | N/A |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 18.7% | #691 of 796 | N/A |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 34.5% | #612 of 942 | #6 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.3% | #256 of 499 | N/A |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
229
-20 (-8%) vs 2020
+46% since 1990-91, when it was 157
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
was 12.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 229 | 22.9 | 10.0:1 | 34% (79) |
| 2023-24 | 235 | 19.4 | 12.1:1 | 38% (89) |
| 2022-23 | 221 | 20 | 11.1:1 | 41% (91) |
| 2020-21 | 249 | 20 | 12.4:1 | 29% (71) |
| 2017-18 | 264 | 20.2 | 13.1:1 | 35% (93) |
| 2015-16 | 256 | 20 | 12.8:1 | 36% (92) |
| 2010-11 | 283 | 21 | 13.5:1 | 42% (120) |
| 2000-01 | 202 | 16 | 12.6:1 | 29% (59) |
| 1990-91 | 157 | 10 | 15.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (264 to 229); teachers up 13% (20.2 to 22.9).
About ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY
ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY is a small elementary school in ALDEN, Minnesota. Enrollment is 229 students in 2024-25, and the school serves pre-K through 6. Against the 344-student average for elementary schools in Minnesota, enrollment here is 33% lower.
ALDEN-CONGER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT (2 schools, 444 students) runs ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY.
White students make up 90% of enrollment at ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY. Smaller groups are 5% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY's diversity index is 19%, against a US figure of 70%.
Its 22.9 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 10.0:1. This ratio sits 3.7 below the 13.7:1 average for elementary schools in Minnesota. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 34%. The gap from the 55% average for public schools in Freeborn County is 20 points.
allk12 grades ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY a C-. The grade compares the school only with Minnesota public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
In Minnesota, ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 38.1% actual against a predicted 46.5%.
In the county around the school, Freeborn County, the median household income is $71,023, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 18% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Freeborn County is home to 19 public schools and about 4,061 public school students.
The shortest distance from ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY to another public school is less than a tenth of a mile, to First Step Alden. Counting only straight-line distance, 4 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 6 closest schools with test data, this one included, ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
Federal data place ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY in the Rural: Distant locale, which means it is in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
Enrollment is down 8% from 2020-21, when ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY had 249 students, to 2024-25, when it had 229. Its ratio of students to teachers was 12.4:1 in 2020-21, and 10.0:1 in 2024-25.
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Freeborn County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
30,623
Census ACS
Median income
$71,023
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
18%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
19
4,061 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ALDEN-CONGER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
- ALDEN-CONGER SECONDARYHigh · 215 students
Other schools in ALDEN
- ALDEN-CONGER SECONDARYHigh · 215 students
- Enrich AldenCombined · 17 students
- Next Step West (Alden)High · 6 students
- First Step AldenElementary · 3 students
Nearby schools
- First Step Alden0.0 mi · 3
- ALDEN-CONGER SECONDARY0.0 mi · 215
- Enrich Alden0.0 mi · 17
- Next Step West (Alden)0.2 mi · 6
- UNITED SOUTH CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL9.1 mi · 343
- UNITED SOUTH CENTRAL ELEMENTARY9.1 mi · 420
Frequently asked questions
About ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARYHow many students attend ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY?
ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 229 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY serve?
ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY serves grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY is approximately 10.0:1 (23 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY?
Student demographics at ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY are roughly 90% White, 5% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY in?
ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY is part of ALDEN-CONGER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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