SILVER RANCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

SILVER RANCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a primary school of sprawling scale in Bismarck, North Dakota, run under BISMARCK 1, enrolling 386 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, North Dakota's public schools average about 212 students each, so SILVER RANCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 82% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 26 schools in BISMARCK 1 (14,086 students total), SILVER RANCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SILVER RANCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that nearly all students (92%) are White. The remainder comes out to 4% multiracial.

On the resource side, SILVER RANCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.5:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 4% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Burleigh County's rate of about 24%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Burleigh County put median household earnings sit near $86,851, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Burleigh County runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,427 students), of which SILVER RANCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

SUNRISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SILVER RANCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

The school occupies a small-town site.

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