KARLSTAD ELEMENTARY

KARLSTAD ELEMENTARY, a micro-enrollment K-5 school in KARLSTAD, Minnesota, overseen by TRI-COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, works with 96 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so KARLSTAD ELEMENTARY sits 72% below that benchmark.

KARLSTAD ELEMENTARY is one of 2 schools operated by TRI-COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that teaches 179 students overall.

On demographics, KARLSTAD ELEMENTARY logs that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, KARLSTAD ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.3%, the actual is 38.8%, a residual of -0.5 points.

In the area at large, census data for Kittson County shows the typical household earns roughly $76,100 per year, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Kittson County runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 634 students), of which KARLSTAD ELEMENTARY is one.

The closest other public school is TRI-COUNTY SECONDARY, roughly 0.0 miles away. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts KARLSTAD ELEMENTARY at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 44.4%.

KARLSTAD ELEMENTARY operates from a low-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 15%: 113 students in 2018 compared to 96 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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