MEADOWLARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

MEADOWLARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a sprawling primary school in Fargo, North Dakota, part of WEST FARGO 6. Current enrollment sits at 379 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 79% larger than the typical public school in North Dakota, which averages around 212 students.

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

Looking at the student body, MEADOWLARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 6% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 3% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Cass County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting MEADOWLARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 10% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Cass County (around 30%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Cass County put median household earnings sit near $75,555, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Cass County runs 66 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,826 students), of which MEADOWLARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

OSGOOD ELEM SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MEADOWLARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

The school occupies a city-core site.

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