BIRCH GROVE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS

BIRCH GROVE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS operates as a medium-sized primary school in BROOKLYN PARK, Minnesota, part of OSSEO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 460 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so BIRCH GROVE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS sits 34% above that benchmark.

OSSEO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 31 schools with combined enrollment of 21,138 students; BIRCH GROVE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS is among them.

In terms of who attends, BIRCH GROVE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS shows that the most-represented group is Black (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 19% Asian, 16% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 12% White. The wider county runs roughly 13% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting BIRCH GROVE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 68% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Hennepin County's rate of about 43%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BIRCH GROVE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.5%, the actual is 24.6%, a residual of -3.9 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Hennepin County shows median household income runs about $97,653, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hennepin County's 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), BIRCH GROVE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS is one campus in the mix.

Brooklyn Middle STEAM School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BIRCH GROVE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BIRCH GROVE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 26.5%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 453 students in 2018 compared to 460 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 22% to 12%.

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