PRAIRIE ROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a sizable primary school in Dickinson, North Dakota, PRAIRIE ROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL hosts 490 students from grades K through 5, run under DICKINSON 1. That puts it 131% bigger than the typical public school in North Dakota, which averages around 212 students.

DICKINSON 1 comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 4,177 students; PRAIRIE ROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, PRAIRIE ROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that White students make up the majority at 70%; the rest comes out to 14% Hispanic, 8% Black, 4% Native American, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Stark County as a whole is about 86% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, PRAIRIE ROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting PRAIRIE ROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 40% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Stark County's rate of about 29%.

Zooming out to the county, Stark County reports that the typical household earns roughly $84,449 per year, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Stark County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,206 students), PRAIRIE ROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

ROUGHRIDER ELEMENTARY VIRTUAL ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

PRAIRIE ROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a town-based location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PRAIRIE ROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has contracted 5%, going from 516 students in 2018 to 490 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 77% to 70%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 8.4:1 today.

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