Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Elementary

Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Elementary is a mid-sized K-5 school in BROOTEN, Minnesota, run under BELGRADE-BROOTEN-ELROSA SCHOOL DIST. The school caters to 294 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Elementary is one of 2 schools operated by BELGRADE-BROOTEN-ELROSA SCHOOL DIST, a district that caters to 610 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Elementary logs that nearly all students (90%) are White; the rest consists of 10% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.7%, the actual is 42.4%, a residual of -1.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, Stearns County reports that the typical household earns roughly $77,066 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Stearns County runs 74 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,160 students), of which Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Sec., around 7.2 miles off. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Elementary at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 50.9%.

Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Elementary has ticked down 15%, going from 345 students in 2018 to 294 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

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