West Rapids Elementary

West Rapids Elementary operates as a sprawling K-5 school in GRAND RAPIDS, Minnesota, run under GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 612 students spanning grades pre-K through 2. That puts it 78% bigger than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.

GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 3,972 students. West Rapids Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, West Rapids Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). Beyond that, the school shows 11% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Around 49% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Around the school, census data for Itasca County shows the typical household earns roughly $68,603 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Itasca County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,407 students), West Rapids Elementary is one campus in the mix.

GRAND RAPIDS EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around West Rapids Elementary.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

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