ELM CREEK ELEMENTARY

ELM CREEK ELEMENTARY, a roomy elementary-level community in MAPLE GROVE, Minnesota, one of the schools within OSSEO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, enrolls 565 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 344 students per school, that is 64% above typical.

Within OSSEO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 31 schools and 21,138 students, ELM CREEK ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, ELM CREEK ELEMENTARY logs that 58% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 14% Black, 12% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, 6% Asian. By comparison, Hennepin County as a whole is about 66% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting ELM CREEK ELEMENTARY higher than the state norm the norm. Around 33% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Hennepin County (around 43%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, ELM CREEK ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.3%, the actual is 50.5%, a residual of +3.2 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Hennepin County) shows that median household income runs about $97,653, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Hennepin County runs 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), of which ELM CREEK ELEMENTARY is one.

Nearest neighbor: Noble Academy Middle School, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ELM CREEK ELEMENTARY ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 41.1%.

ELM CREEK ELEMENTARY operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ELM CREEK ELEMENTARY has ticked up 8%, going from 524 students in 2018 to 565 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 64% to 58% across the same window.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for ELM CREEK ELEMENTARY typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.