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Enrollment
616
Elementary
DISTRICT 443 · STATE 344
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MOORHEAD AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 272142003510
ELLEN HOPKINS ELEMENTARY
2020 S 11TH ST, MOORHEAD, MN 56560 · (218) 284-4300 · Clay County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL616 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 48% of Minnesota public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats 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
14.2:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.2:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
72%
443 students
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 48%
Community
5
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 130 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 116 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 125 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 119 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 126 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (130) is about the same size as its 4th grade class (126).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · 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
33.7%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
38.8%
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 39 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
35.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.4%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% 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 ELLEN HOPKINS ELEMENTARY
ELLEN HOPKINS ELEMENTARY's state test result (35.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELLEN HOPKINS ELEMENTARY this school | 616 | 71.9% | 35.4% |
| Pillsbury Elementary MINNEAPOLIS | 439 | 72.4% | 17.5% |
| FOREST ELEMENTARY CRYSTAL | 464 | 67.9% | 25.4% |
| Marcy Elementary MINNEAPOLIS | 415 | 68.9% | 24.5% |
| MADISON ELEMENTARY SAINT CLOUD | 704 | 68.9% | 31.6% |
| Park Terrace Elementary SPRING LAKE PARK | 532 | 67.3% | 21.8% |
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 ELLEN HOPKINS ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In Clay County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.4% | #599 of 844 | #9 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.8% | #597 of 844 | #9 of 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.7% | #667 of 844 | #9 of 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 616 | #147 of 1,130 | #3 of 13 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.2:1 | #457 of 769 | #6 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.5% | #159 of 796 | #1 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 71.9% | #149 of 942 | #1 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.2% | #370 of 499 | N/A |
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
616
+6 (+1%) vs 2020
-23% since 2010-11, when it was 800
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
was 12.7:1
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 | 616 | 43.3 | 14.2:1 | 72% (443) |
| 2023-24 | 595 | 46.7 | 12.7:1 | 70% (416) |
| 2022-23 | 643 | 43.4 | 14.8:1 | 46% (294) |
| 2020-21 | 610 | 48 | 12.7:1 | 28% (170) |
| 2017-18 | 664 | 45 | 14.8:1 | 38% (250) |
| 2015-16 | 779 | 51 | 15.3:1 | 53% (412) |
| 2010-11 | 800 | 41 | 19.5:1 | 51% (410) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ELLEN HOPKINS ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (664 to 616); teachers down 4% (45 to 43.3).
About ELLEN HOPKINS ELEMENTARY
ELLEN HOPKINS ELEMENTARY is a large elementary school in MOORHEAD, Minnesota. Its grade span covers kindergarten through 4, with 616 students on the rolls. Elementary schools in Minnesota average about 344 students, which makes this school 79% bigger than average.
Moorhead Area Public Schools operates 12 schools. Combined enrollment is 7,571 students.
White students account for 46% of enrollment at ELLEN HOPKINS ELEMENTARY, more than any other group. The remaining students are 26% Black, 17% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 4% Native American. Among people living in Clay County, the White share is about 85%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, ELLEN HOPKINS ELEMENTARY scores 69%.
There are 43.3 full-time-equivalent teachers at ELLEN HOPKINS ELEMENTARY, giving a ratio of 14.2:1. The average for elementary schools in Minnesota is about 13.7:1. By family income, 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Clay County averages 40%, lower than here.
On the allk12 Grade, ELLEN HOPKINS ELEMENTARY lands at B-, ahead of 48% of Minnesota public elementary schools.
In Minnesota, ELLEN HOPKINS ELEMENTARY is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 35.4% actual against a predicted 26.4%.
Looking at the county, Clay County, the median household earns about $81,172 a year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting ELLEN HOPKINS ELEMENTARY, Clay County has 32 public schools.
Moorhead Voluntary PreKindergarten is about 0.4 miles from ELLEN HOPKINS ELEMENTARY, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around ELLEN HOPKINS ELEMENTARY holds at least 8 other public schools. ELLEN HOPKINS ELEMENTARY comes in 4th of 4 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Under the NCES locale system, ELLEN HOPKINS ELEMENTARY is Suburb: Mid-size.
Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 610 in 2020-21, 616 in 2024-25. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio increased from 12.7:1 to 14.2:1.
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Clay County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
66,059
Census ACS
Median income
$81,172
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
32
11,470 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Moorhead Area Public Schools
- HORIZON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 2,158 students
- MOORHEAD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,122 students
- S.G. Reinertsen ElementaryElementary · 719 students
- Dorothy Dodds Elementary SchoolElementary · 625 students
- Robert Asp ElementaryElementary · 580 students
- Probstfield ElementaryElementary · 290 students
Other schools in MOORHEAD
- HORIZON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 2,158 students
- MOORHEAD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,122 students
- S.G. Reinertsen ElementaryElementary · 719 students
- Dorothy Dodds Elementary SchoolElementary · 625 students
- Robert Asp ElementaryElementary · 580 students
- Probstfield ElementaryElementary · 290 students
Nearby schools
- Moorhead Voluntary PreKindergarten0.4 mi · 20
- PROBSTFIELD CENTER FOR EDUCATION0.4 mi · 253
- Probstfield Elementary0.4 mi · 290
- Moorhead ALC1.3 mi · 138
- CLARA BARTON HAWTHORNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 312
- MOORHEAD HIGH SCHOOL1.6 mi · 2,122
Frequently asked questions
About ELLEN HOPKINS ELEMENTARYWhat is the total enrollment at ELLEN HOPKINS ELEMENTARY?
ELLEN HOPKINS ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 616 students in grades KG-04.
Is ELLEN HOPKINS ELEMENTARY an elementary, middle, or high school?
ELLEN HOPKINS ELEMENTARY is an elementary school covering grades KG-04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at ELLEN HOPKINS ELEMENTARY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at ELLEN HOPKINS ELEMENTARY is approximately 14.2:1 (43 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at ELLEN HOPKINS ELEMENTARY?
At ELLEN HOPKINS ELEMENTARY, the student body is approximately 46% White, 17% Hispanic, 26% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is ELLEN HOPKINS ELEMENTARY public or private?
ELLEN HOPKINS ELEMENTARY is a public K-12 school, overseen by Moorhead Area Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.