BASSWOOD ELEMENTARY

BASSWOOD ELEMENTARY is a K-5 school of well-populated scale in MAPLE GROVE, Minnesota, operated by OSSEO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, works with 848 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so BASSWOOD ELEMENTARY sits 147% above that benchmark.

OSSEO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 31 schools in total, collectively educating 21,138 students. BASSWOOD ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

On demographics, BASSWOOD ELEMENTARY logs that 66% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder breaks down as 11% Black, 10% multiracial, 7% Asian, 6% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Hennepin County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, BASSWOOD ELEMENTARY lists 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Roughly 19% of students at BASSWOOD ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Hennepin County's rate of about 43%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BASSWOOD ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.1%, the actual is 58.2%, a residual of +3.1 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Hennepin County) shows that median household earnings sit near $97,653, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Hennepin County's 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), BASSWOOD ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

School #533 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BASSWOOD ELEMENTARY. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BASSWOOD ELEMENTARY ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 52.7%.

BASSWOOD ELEMENTARY operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 21%: 1,069 students in 2018 compared to 848 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 75% to 66% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 18.7:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for BASSWOOD ELEMENTARY typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.