Montrose Elementary School of Innov

Montrose Elementary School of Innov is a medium-sized elementary-level community in MONTROSE, Minnesota, overseen by Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose Schools. The school enrolls 363 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose Schools, which oversees 10 schools and 5,175 students, Montrose Elementary School of Innov is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Montrose Elementary School of Innov lists that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 8% Hispanic, 4% Black, 2% Asian.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.4:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 46% of students at Montrose Elementary School of Innov qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Wright County runs at roughly 24%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Montrose Elementary School of Innov performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.5%, the actual is 46.0%, a residual of +5.5 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Wright County) records that the typical household earns roughly $107,209 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Wright County's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,879 students), Montrose Elementary School of Innov is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: HUMPHREY ELEMENTARY, around 3.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Montrose Elementary School of Innov comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 55.9%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Montrose Elementary School of Innov's enrollment has ticked up 6% since 2018, when it stood at 341 (now 363). Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

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