COLD SPRING ELEMENTARY

COLD SPRING ELEMENTARY is one of the sizable elementary schools in COLD SPRING, Minnesota, part of ROCORI PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 656 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 91% bigger than the state mean of about 344.

Within ROCORI PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 7 schools and 2,406 students, COLD SPRING ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

Demographically, COLD SPRING ELEMENTARY records that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 37% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, COLD SPRING ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.0%, the actual is 42.2%, a residual of -2.8 points.

Across the wider county, Stearns County reports that the typical household earns roughly $77,066 per year, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Stearns County runs 74 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,160 students), of which COLD SPRING ELEMENTARY is one.

The closest other public school is ROCORI SENIOR HIGH, roughly 0.1 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), COLD SPRING ELEMENTARY ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 44.4%.

COLD SPRING ELEMENTARY operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 31%: 500 students in 2018 compared to 656 in 2025.

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