WOODLAND ELEMENTARY

Located at 4501 OAK GROVE PKWY, in BROOKLYN PARK, Minnesota, WOODLAND ELEMENTARY is a heavily attended primary school that works with 609 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under OSSEO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. Compared to the state average of about 344 students per school, that is 77% bigger than typical.

OSSEO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 31 schools with combined enrollment of 21,138 students; WOODLAND ELEMENTARY is among them.

On demographics, WOODLAND ELEMENTARY logs that the most-represented group is Black (34%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 25% Asian, 24% White, 12% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 13% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.2:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 43% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WOODLAND ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.1%, the actual is 41.7%, a residual of -0.4 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Hennepin County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. WOODLAND ELEMENTARY is one of 496 public schools in Hennepin County (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students).

The closest other public school is Athlos Leadership Academy, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WOODLAND ELEMENTARY. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WOODLAND ELEMENTARY ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 32.1%.

WOODLAND ELEMENTARY operates from a commuter-belt location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 16%: 728 students in 2018 compared to 609 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 37% to 24%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.

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