Robert Asp Elementary

Robert Asp Elementary operates as a sizable elementary campus in MOORHEAD, Minnesota, overseen by Moorhead Area Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 580 students spanning grades K through 4. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so Robert Asp Elementary sits 69% larger than that benchmark.

Moorhead Area Public Schools runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 7,571 students. Robert Asp Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Robert Asp Elementary shows that the largest single group is White, at 64% of enrollment; the rest reads as 13% Hispanic, 10% Black, 6% Native American, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Clay County as a whole is about 85% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Robert Asp Elementary logs 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.4:1. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 53% of students at Robert Asp Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Clay County (around 40%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Robert Asp Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.5%; this one delivers 38.2%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Clay County indicate median household income runs about $81,172, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Robert Asp Elementary is one of 32 public schools in Clay County (combined enrollment of about 11,470 students).

Nearest neighbor: West Central Academy-S, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Robert Asp Elementary.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 13%: 663 students in 2018 compared to 580 in 2025.

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