OSAKIS ELEMENTARY

Set in OSAKIS, Minnesota, OSAKIS ELEMENTARY is a mid-tier elementary campus, one of the schools within OSAKIS PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. It hosts 472 students across grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 37% above the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.

OSAKIS PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 887 students. OSAKIS ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

On demographics, OSAKIS ELEMENTARY logs that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Douglas County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 36% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, OSAKIS ELEMENTARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.8%; this one delivers 56.6%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Douglas County) reports that median household income runs about $79,043, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. OSAKIS ELEMENTARY is one of 22 public schools in Douglas County (combined enrollment of about 5,781 students).

OSAKIS SECONDARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 4 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts OSAKIS ELEMENTARY at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 49.2%.

OSAKIS ELEMENTARY operates from a countryside location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 12%: 421 students in 2018 compared to 472 in 2025.

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