AURORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a large elementary campus in West Fargo, North Dakota, AURORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL instructs 377 students from grades K through 5, part of WEST FARGO 6. By comparison, North Dakota's public schools average about 212 students each, so AURORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 78% above that benchmark.

Across the 26 schools in WEST FARGO 6 (13,175 students total), AURORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, AURORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 18% Black, 4% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

On the resource side, AURORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 25% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

In the surrounding community, Cass County reports that the typical household earns roughly $75,555 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Cass County runs 66 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,826 students), of which AURORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

BROOKS HARBOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

AURORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 27%: 517 students in 2018 compared to 377 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 89% to 72%.

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