Enrollment
239
Elementary
DISTRICT 364 · STATE 344
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WHITE BEAR LAKE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 274236001786
Birch Lake Elementary
1616 BIRCH LAKE AVE, WHITE BEAR LAKE, MN 55110 · (651) 653-2776 · Ramsey County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL239 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 15% of Minnesota public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Minnesota public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
46%
110 students
DISTRICT 36% · STATE 48%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 16 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 35 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 38 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 41 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 39 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 41 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 29 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (35) is 21% larger than its 5th grade class (29).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 60% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsEnglish Language Arts
34.0%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
43.4%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
Source: MCA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
32.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.3%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Minnesota's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Birch Lake Elementary
Birch Lake Elementary's state test result (32.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birch Lake Elementary this school | 239 | 46.0% | 32.3% |
| Hoover Elementary School ROCHESTER | 228 | 42.1% | 39.4% |
| JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY WINONA | 322 | 49.7% | 48.6% |
| Churchill Elementary School ROCHESTER | 192 | 47.9% | N/A |
| Discovery Charter Elementary School INVER GROVE HEIGHTS | 166 | 39.8% | 39.4% |
| Lakeaires Elementary WHITE BEAR LAKE | 396 | 46.0% | 38.1% |
Matched among Minnesota elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Birch Lake Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In Ramsey County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.3% | #645 of 844 | #41 of 93 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.4% | #526 of 844 | #27 of 93 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.0% | #664 of 844 | #43 of 93 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 239 | #740 of 1,130 | #83 of 119 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.8:1 | #78 of 769 | #12 of 83 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.6% | #208 of 796 | #48 of 86 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 46.0% | #380 of 942 | #69 of 101 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.1% | #264 of 499 | #30 of 55 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
239
-14 (-6%) vs 2020
-56% since 1990-91, when it was 549
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 10.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 239 | 22.2 | 10.8:1 | 46% (110) |
| 2023-24 | 246 | 19.3 | 12.8:1 | 51% (126) |
| 2022-23 | 281 | 22.4 | 12.5:1 | 54% (153) |
| 2020-21 | 253 | 24 | 10.5:1 | 43% (108) |
| 2017-18 | 275 | 24.7 | 11.1:1 | 45% (124) |
| 2015-16 | 274 | 21 | 13.1:1 | 47% (128) |
| 2010-11 | 243 | 19 | 12.8:1 | 40% (98) |
| 2000-01 | 421 | 22 | 19.1:1 | 21% (89) |
| 1990-91 | 549 | 25 | 22.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Birch Lake Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (275 to 239); teachers down 10% (24.7 to 22.2).
About Birch Lake Elementary
Birch Lake Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary school in WHITE BEAR LAKE, Minnesota, under White Bear Lake School District. The latest federal count shows 239 students in pre-K through 5. Against the 344-student average for elementary schools in Minnesota, enrollment here is 31% lower.
White Bear Lake School District has 20 schools; together they serve 11,839 students.
Roughly 54% of students at Birch Lake Elementary are White. Other groups include 17% Hispanic, 11% Black, 9% multiracial, and 9% Asian. Pick two students at random and there is a 66% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
A ratio of 10.8:1 comes from the school's 22.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is 2.9 students per teacher below the 13.7:1 average for elementary schools in Minnesota. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 46% in 2024-25. The gap from the 57% average for public schools in Ramsey County is 11 points.
The allk12 Grade for Birch Lake Elementary is C-. Compared with Minnesota public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 15% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Birch Lake Elementary's average proficiency rate on state tests of 32.3% is 8.0 points below the 40.3% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Ramsey County show that the median household income is $81,568, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 46%, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. Besides Birch Lake Elementary, Ramsey County has 301 other public schools.
The school nearest to Birch Lake Elementary is Lincoln Elementary, at a distance of about 0.8 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Birch Lake Elementary is 6th of 6 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 14 fewer students in 2024-25.
The Birch Lake Elementary community page is open for posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Ramsey County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
542,945
Census ACS
Median income
$81,568
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
302
94,437 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in White Bear Lake School District
- White Bear Lake Area High SchoolHigh · 2,572 students
- WHITE BEAR NORTH CAMPUS SENIORCombined · 1,322 students
- WHITE BEAR SOUTH CAMPUS SENIORHigh · 1,196 students
- Central MiddleMiddle · 922 students
- Mariner Middle SchoolMiddle · 881 students
- SUNRISE PARK MIDDLEMiddle · 750 students
Other schools in WHITE BEAR LAKE
- White Bear Lake Area High SchoolHigh · 2,572 students
- WHITE BEAR NORTH CAMPUS SENIORCombined · 1,322 students
- WHITE BEAR SOUTH CAMPUS SENIORHigh · 1,196 students
- Central MiddleMiddle · 922 students
- Mariner Middle SchoolMiddle · 881 students
- SUNRISE PARK MIDDLEMiddle · 750 students
Nearby schools
- Lincoln Elementary0.8 mi · 469
- Central Middle1.2 mi · 922
- WHITE BEAR NORTH CAMPUS SENIOR1.3 mi · 1,322
- White Bear Lake Area High School1.3 mi · 2,572
- Otter Lake Elementary1.7 mi · 492
- Lakeaires Elementary1.7 mi · 396
Frequently asked questions
About Birch Lake ElementaryHow large is Birch Lake Elementary?
Birch Lake Elementary enrolls approximately 239 students in grades PK-05.
Is Birch Lake Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Birch Lake Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Birch Lake Elementary have?
Birch Lake Elementary employs 22 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Birch Lake Elementary?
Student demographics at Birch Lake Elementary are roughly 54% White, 17% Hispanic, 11% Black, 9% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Birch Lake Elementary public or private?
Birch Lake Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by White Bear Lake School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.