WILLOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in Fargo, North Dakota, WILLOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a big elementary-level community, one of the schools within WEST FARGO 6. It caters to 461 students across grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 117% above the state mean of about 212.

WILLOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 26 schools operated by WEST FARGO 6, a district that hosts 13,175 students overall.

On demographics, WILLOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the most-represented group is Black (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 37% White, 11% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 7%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 11.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 61% of students at WILLOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Cass County's rate of about 30%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Cass County) records that the typical household earns roughly $75,555 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 WILLOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: WEST FARGO HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

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