FREEDOM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

FREEDOM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an expansive elementary school in West Fargo, North Dakota, run under WEST FARGO 6. The school works with 473 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 123% larger than the typical public school in North Dakota, which averages around 212 students.

WEST FARGO 6 comprises 26 schools with combined enrollment of 13,175 students; FREEDOM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, FREEDOM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White, at 58% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 24% Black, 8% Asian, 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.8:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 29% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Across the wider county, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. FREEDOM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 66 public schools in Cass County (combined enrollment of about 27,826 students).

Nearest neighbor: LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 1.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. FREEDOM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 4% since 2018, when it stood at 492 (now 473). Over the same period, the White share fell from 70% to 58%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

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