PINE RIVER-BACKUS ELEMENTARY

PINE RIVER-BACKUS ELEMENTARY operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in PINE RIVER, Minnesota, part of PINE RIVER-BACKUS SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 478 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 39% bigger than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.

Within PINE RIVER-BACKUS SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 3 schools and 906 students, PINE RIVER-BACKUS ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

On demographics, PINE RIVER-BACKUS ELEMENTARY lists that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting PINE RIVER-BACKUS ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 68% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, PINE RIVER-BACKUS ELEMENTARY ranks in the top 10% of Minnesota public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 28.5%; PINE RIVER-BACKUS ELEMENTARY posts 48.1%, +19.6 points above that line.

Around the school, Cass County reports that the typical household earns roughly $68,874 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Cass County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,570 students), PINE RIVER-BACKUS ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

PINE RIVER-BACKUS HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PINE RIVER-BACKUS ELEMENTARY comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 46.1%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Five-year trend. PINE RIVER-BACKUS ELEMENTARY's enrollment has declined 13% since 2018, when it stood at 547 (now 478). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 95% to 90%.

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