Enrollment
249
Elementary
DISTRICT 248 · STATE 344
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FERTILE-BELTRAMI SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 271191000582
FERTILE-BELTRAMI ELEMENTARY
210 S MILL ST, FERTILE, MN 56540 · (218) 945-6953 · Polk County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY43-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL249 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 89% of Minnesota public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
12.3:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.8:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
108 students
DISTRICT 37% · 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 | 5 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 26 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 34 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 47 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 37 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 25 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 38 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 37 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (26) is 30% smaller than its 6th grade class (37).
Student demographics
14%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 13% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
FERTILE-BELTRAMI ELEMENTARY→FERTILE-BELTRAMI SECONDARY
Based on grade levels within FERTILE-BELTRAMI SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsEnglish Language Arts
61.8%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
62.9%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of MN schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
59.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.8%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 42% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 18 points, placing it in Minnesota's top 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 FERTILE-BELTRAMI ELEMENTARY
FERTILE-BELTRAMI ELEMENTARY's state test result (59.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| FERTILE-BELTRAMI ELEMENTARY this school | 249 | 43.4% | 59.3% |
| WILLOW RIVER ELEMENTARY WILLOW RIVER | 231 | 44.2% | 45.3% |
| VERNDALE ELEMENTARY VERNDALE | 253 | 41.5% | 42.3% |
| RED ROCK CENTRAL ELEMENTARY LAMBERTON | 244 | 40.6% | 56.3% |
| LITTLEFORK-BIG FALLS ELEMENTARY LITTLEFORK | 216 | 44.0% | 34.8% |
| OGILVIE ELEMENTARY OGILVIE | 264 | 45.1% | 31.3% |
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 FERTILE-BELTRAMI ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In Polk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 59.3% | #156 of 844 | #1 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.9% | #219 of 844 | #2 of 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.8% | #165 of 844 | #1 of 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 249 | #724 of 1,130 | #5 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.3:1 | #210 of 769 | #1 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 14.4% | #727 of 796 | #6 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 43.4% | #434 of 942 | #4 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.2% | #483 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
249
+28 (+13%) vs 2020
-21% since 1990-91, when it was 315
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
was 12.3:1
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 | 249 | 20.3 | 12.3:1 | 43% (108) |
| 2023-24 | 250 | 20.9 | 12.0:1 | 46% (116) |
| 2022-23 | 260 | 19.1 | 13.6:1 | 50% (130) |
| 2020-21 | 221 | 18 | 12.3:1 | 28% (62) |
| 2017-18 | 252 | 18.6 | 13.5:1 | 28% (70) |
| 2015-16 | 267 | 18 | 14.8:1 | 34% (90) |
| 2010-11 | 238 | 18 | 13.2:1 | 45% (107) |
| 2000-01 | 266 | 16 | 16.6:1 | 48% (127) |
| 1990-91 | 315 | 22 | 14.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for FERTILE-BELTRAMI ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (252 to 249); teachers up 9% (18.6 to 20.3).
About FERTILE-BELTRAMI ELEMENTARY
Students in FERTILE, Minnesota, attend FERTILE-BELTRAMI ELEMENTARY, a low-enrollment elementary school. It reports enrollment of 249 students in pre-K through 6. The school is 28% below the average for elementary schools in Minnesota.
FERTILE-BELTRAMI SCHOOL DISTRICT counts 495 students in its 2 schools, and FERTILE-BELTRAMI ELEMENTARY is one of them.
Roughly 92% of students at FERTILE-BELTRAMI ELEMENTARY are White. Next come 4% multiracial and 3% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, FERTILE-BELTRAMI ELEMENTARY scores 14%.
Staffing at FERTILE-BELTRAMI ELEMENTARY comes to 20.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12.3:1. The school's 12.3:1 compares with an average of 13.7:1 for elementary schools in Minnesota. On the income side, 43% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is in line with the 43% average for public schools in Polk County.
FERTILE-BELTRAMI ELEMENTARY earns an A on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 89% of Minnesota public elementary schools.
The BeatsExpectations model predicts 41.8% for FERTILE-BELTRAMI ELEMENTARY, given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The actual figure is 59.3%. The 17.5-point gap ranks in the top 10% of Minnesota schools.
For Polk County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $73,107 a year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Polk County number 20, with about 5,075 students.
Measured in a straight line, FERTILE-BELTRAMI SECONDARY is less than a tenth of a mile from FERTILE-BELTRAMI ELEMENTARY. Nearby schools with test data average 38.8% proficiency; FERTILE-BELTRAMI ELEMENTARY posts 59.3%.
Federal data place FERTILE-BELTRAMI ELEMENTARY in the Rural: Remote locale, which means it is in rural territory far from an urban area.
A 13% increase took enrollment from 221 in 2020-21 to 249 in 2024-25.
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Polk County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
30,705
Census ACS
Median income
$73,107
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
20
5,075 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in FERTILE-BELTRAMI SCHOOL DISTRICT
- FERTILE-BELTRAMI SECONDARYHigh · 246 students
Nearby schools
- FERTILE-BELTRAMI SECONDARY0.0 mi · 246
- WIN-E-MAC ELEMENTARY16.8 mi · 247
- WIN-E-MAC SECONDARY16.8 mi · 211
- NORMAN COUNTY EAST ELEMENTARY18.8 mi · 95
- NORMAN COUNTY EAST SECONDARY18.8 mi · 71
- Ada-Borup-West Elementary19.9 mi · 370
Frequently asked questions
About FERTILE-BELTRAMI ELEMENTARYHow large is FERTILE-BELTRAMI ELEMENTARY?
FERTILE-BELTRAMI ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 249 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does FERTILE-BELTRAMI ELEMENTARY serve?
FERTILE-BELTRAMI ELEMENTARY serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
How many teachers does FERTILE-BELTRAMI ELEMENTARY have?
FERTILE-BELTRAMI ELEMENTARY employs 20 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.3:1.
What is the student diversity at FERTILE-BELTRAMI ELEMENTARY?
Student demographics at FERTILE-BELTRAMI ELEMENTARY are roughly 92% White, 3% Hispanic, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees FERTILE-BELTRAMI ELEMENTARY?
FERTILE-BELTRAMI ELEMENTARY is overseen by FERTILE-BELTRAMI SCHOOL DISTRICT in Polk County.
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