PARKERS PRAIRIE ELEMENTARY

PARKERS PRAIRIE ELEMENTARY operates as a tight-knit elementary campus in PARKERS PRAIRIE, Minnesota, part of PARKERS PRAIRIE PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST.. Current enrollment sits at 251 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 27% below the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.

Across the 2 schools in PARKERS PRAIRIE PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST. (531 students total), PARKERS PRAIRIE ELEMENTARY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PARKERS PRAIRIE ELEMENTARY reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (97%).

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, PARKERS PRAIRIE ELEMENTARY has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting PARKERS PRAIRIE ELEMENTARY higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 35% of students at PARKERS PRAIRIE ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, PARKERS PRAIRIE ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.0%, the actual is 49.6%, a residual of +3.6 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Otter Tail County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $72,255 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Otter Tail County runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,503 students), of which PARKERS PRAIRIE ELEMENTARY is one.

PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 2 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, PARKERS PRAIRIE ELEMENTARY comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 50.2%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PARKERS PRAIRIE ELEMENTARY has contracted 12%, going from 285 students in 2018 to 251 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 today.

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