ROSSMAN ELEMENTARY

ROSSMAN ELEMENTARY is an elementary school of well-populated scale in DETROIT LAKES, Minnesota, one of the schools within DETROIT LAKES PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST., instructing 565 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 344 students per school, that is 64% larger than typical.

DETROIT LAKES PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST. comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 2,728 students; ROSSMAN ELEMENTARY is among them.

In terms of who attends, ROSSMAN ELEMENTARY logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%); the rest comes out to 9% Native American, 5% multiracial, 2% Hispanic, 2% Black.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 33% of students at ROSSMAN ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Becker County (around 41%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, ROSSMAN ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 47.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 58.1%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Becker County put the typical household earns roughly $71,388 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Becker County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,637 students), of which ROSSMAN ELEMENTARY is one.

The closest other public school is LINCOLN EARLY CHILDHOOD ED. CENTER, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ROSSMAN ELEMENTARY comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 46.6%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 6%: 601 students in 2018 compared to 565 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

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