PARKER ELEMENTARY

PARKER ELEMENTARY is a K-5 school of moderately sized scale in ELK RIVER, Minnesota, one of the schools within Elk River Public School District, instructing 513 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 49% above the state mean of about 344.

Elk River Public School District runs 29 schools in total, collectively educating 14,633 students. PARKER ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

On demographics, PARKER ELEMENTARY shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). Beyond that, the school shows 7% Black, 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, PARKER ELEMENTARY logs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.9:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PARKER ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 57.3%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Sherburne County indicate the typical household earns roughly $105,466 per year, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Sherburne County's 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,306 students), PARKER ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

LINCOLN ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PARKER ELEMENTARY.

PARKER ELEMENTARY operates from a residential location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PARKER ELEMENTARY has contracted 10%, going from 573 students in 2018 to 513 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 in 2025.

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