NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools MN

Best-Resourced Schools in Belle Plaine, MN

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6 public K-12 schools in Belle Plaine from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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6
Schools
1,522
Students
34.2/100
Avg Resource Index
20:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Belle Plaine has more public-school enrollment than 6% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Belle Plaine's 6 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Belle Plaine's list includes 1 elementary, 1 middle, and 2 high-school campuses, plus 2 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Belle Plaine lists only 6 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 10 to 475 students, a 48-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 94%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
23rd percentile
Teacher staffing
16th percentile

Belle Plaine Senior High accounts for 31.2% of all Belle Plaine public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Belle Plaine-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Belle Plaine school enrollment varies 48× across entities

Belle Plaine school enrollment ranges from 10 students (lowest) to 475 students (highest), a spread of 465 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme heterogeneity inside a single city, with small specialty programs listed alongside large comprehensive campuses. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Belle Plaine operates one school district — a single-district system

Belle Plaine's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Belle Plaine student-teacher ratio is 20.0:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Chatfield Elementary 42
2. Belle Plaine Senior High 36
3. Oak Crest Elementary 34
4. Belle Plaine Junior High 33
5. Belle Plaine Ecse 30
6. Belle Plaine Transitions/Work Exper 30

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Belle Plaine

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Belle Plaine Ecse 35.9/100
  2. 2 Oak Crest Elementary 31.9/100
  3. 3 Chatfield Elementary 31.9/100
  4. 4 Belle Plaine Junior High 27.5/100
  5. 5 Belle Plaine Senior High 25.8/100

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Which Belle Plaine school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Chatfield Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Belle Plaine schools in this federal-data comparison at 42/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Belle Plaine, MN? ▼

Belle Plaine has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,522 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 20:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.