Barnesville Elementary School

Set in BARNESVILLE, Minnesota, Barnesville Elementary School is a moderately sized K-5 school, part of BARNESVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST.. It teaches 490 students across grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so Barnesville Elementary School sits 42% above that benchmark.

Barnesville Elementary School is one of 2 schools operated by BARNESVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST., a district that serves 870 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Barnesville Elementary School lists that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 3% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 85% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 21% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Clay County (around 40%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Barnesville Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.5%, the actual is 58.4%, a residual of +4.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Clay County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $81,172 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Barnesville Elementary School is one of 32 public schools in Clay County (combined enrollment of about 11,470 students).

Barnesville High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Barnesville Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 47.2%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Barnesville Elementary School's enrollment has edged up 6% since 2018, when it stood at 462 (now 490). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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