PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY

PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY is an elementary-level community of mid-sized scale in BUFFALO, Minnesota, overseen by Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose Schools, educateing 348 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose Schools, which oversees 10 schools and 5,175 students, PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY shows that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Black.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Wright County (around 24%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.4%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Wright County put median household income runs about $107,209, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Wright County runs 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,879 students), of which PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY is one.

The closest other public school is BUFFALO EARLY CHILD. SP. ED PROGRAM, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 10%: 388 students in 2018 compared to 348 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

On the community side, members of the PARKSIDE ELEMENTARY community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.