Cleveland Elementary

Cleveland Elementary operates as a moderately sized primary school in FERGUS FALLS, Minnesota, operated by Fergus Falls Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 361 students spanning grades 4 through 5.

Fergus Falls Public School District comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 3,235 students; Cleveland Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Cleveland Elementary lists that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 7% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Cleveland Elementary logs 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. An estimated 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cleveland Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.4%, the actual is 56.3%, a residual of +11.9 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Otter Tail County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $72,255 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Otter Tail County's 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,503 students), Cleveland Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Kennedy Middle School, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cleveland Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 54.5%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 7%: 387 students in 2018 compared to 361 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 in 2025.

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