Turtle Mountain Elementary School

Turtle Mountain Elementary School is one of the big elementary schools in Belcourt, North Dakota, operated by Turtle Mountain Elementary School, with 544 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 212 students per school, that is 157% above typical.

Turtle Mountain Elementary School sits inside Turtle Mountain Elementary School, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Turtle Mountain Elementary School shows that 100% of students identify as Native American, making the school strongly Native American-majority.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 33.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Rolette County) logs that median household earnings sit near $59,517, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 20%. Turtle Mountain Elementary School is one of 21 public schools in Rolette County (combined enrollment of about 4,695 students).

TURTLE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Looking at the recent track record. Turtle Mountain Elementary School's enrollment has declined 31% since 2018, when it stood at 787 (now 544).

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