Trimont Elementary

Trimont Elementary is a modestly sized K-5 school in TRIMONT, Minnesota, overseen by Martin County West School District. The school instructs 200 students in grades 3 through 6. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so Trimont Elementary sits 42% leaner than that benchmark.

Martin County West School District runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 624 students. Trimont Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Trimont Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%); the rest breaks down as 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Native American. Compared to Martin County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Martin County's rate of about 51%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Trimont Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.5%, the actual is 41.4%, a residual of -4.0 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Martin County indicate median household earnings sit near $59,507, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Martin County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,110 students), of which Trimont Elementary is one.

Sherburn Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 7.4 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Trimont Elementary comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 28.6%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Trimont Elementary's enrollment has decreased 18% since 2018, when it stood at 244 (now 200). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 93% to 89%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Trimont Elementary community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.