KITTSON CENTRAL ELEMENTARY

KITTSON CENTRAL ELEMENTARY, a compact elementary school in HALLOCK, Minnesota, one of the schools within KITTSON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, instructs 139 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 60% leaner than the state mean of about 344.

Within KITTSON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 2 schools and 247 students, KITTSON CENTRAL ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, KITTSON CENTRAL ELEMENTARY reports that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, KITTSON CENTRAL ELEMENTARY has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Around 29% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Kittson County's rate of about 44%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), KITTSON CENTRAL ELEMENTARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.6%; this one delivers 55.3%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Kittson County put 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 KITTSON CENTRAL ELEMENTARY is one.

KITTSON CENTRAL SECONDARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), KITTSON CENTRAL ELEMENTARY ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 37.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 4%: 134 students in 2018 compared to 139 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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