GRAND MEADOW ELEMENTARY

GRAND MEADOW ELEMENTARY is one of the small K-5 schools in GRAND MEADOW, Minnesota, one of the schools within GRAND MEADOW PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 172 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 344 students per school, that is 50% leaner than typical.

GRAND MEADOW PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 443 students. GRAND MEADOW ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, GRAND MEADOW ELEMENTARY logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). Other groups include 2% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 75% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, GRAND MEADOW ELEMENTARY has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 26% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Mower County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, GRAND MEADOW ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.3%, the actual is 55.7%, a residual of +4.3 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Mower County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $73,074 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Mower County's 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,434 students), GRAND MEADOW ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is GRAND MEADOW MIDDLE, roughly 0.0 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, GRAND MEADOW ELEMENTARY comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.1%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GRAND MEADOW ELEMENTARY has changed only slightly, going from 174 students in 2018 to 172 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 9.2:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.