Bamber Valley Elementary School

As a big primary school in ROCHESTER, Minnesota, Bamber Valley Elementary School instructs 599 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by Rochester Public School District. Enrollment runs roughly 74% bigger than the state mean of about 344.

Across the 44 schools in Rochester Public School District (17,171 students total), Bamber Valley Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Bamber Valley Elementary School shows that 68% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 12% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 7% Asian, 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 77% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, About 21% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Olmsted County's rate of about 35%.

After controlling for student poverty, Bamber Valley Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.8%, the actual is 56.0%, a residual of +2.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Olmsted County indicate the typical household earns roughly $95,406 per year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Olmsted County's 72 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,627 students), Bamber Valley Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Rochester Beacon Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Bamber Valley Elementary School comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 35.3%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bamber Valley Elementary School has fell 33%, going from 894 students in 2018 to 599 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged up from 59% to 68% over that span.

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