NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools MN

Best-Resourced Schools in Grand Rapids, MN

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

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8
Schools
3,391
Students
40.8/100
Avg Resource Index
17.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Grand Rapids has more public-school enrollment than 34% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Grand Rapids sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Grand Rapids's list includes 3 elementary, 1 middle, and 1 high-school campus, plus 3 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

Grand Rapids lists only 8 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 39 to 1,091 students, a 28-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 66%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
49th percentile
Teacher staffing
28th percentile

Grand Rapids Senior High accounts for 32.2% of all Grand Rapids public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Grand Rapids-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

Grand Rapids school enrollment varies 28× across entities

Grand Rapids school enrollment ranges from 39 students (lowest) to 1,091 students (highest), a spread of 1,052 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. 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

Grand Rapids operates one school district — a single-district system

Grand Rapids'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

Grand Rapids student-teacher ratio is 17.6:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

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 Variation between sub-units within Grand Rapids is typically wider than the Grand Rapids-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Robert J. Elkington Middle School 57
2. East Rapids Elementary 52
3. Itaskin Education Center 49
4. Grand Rapids Senior High 45
5. Grand Rapids Early Childhood Center 44
6. Grand Rapids Area Learning Center 41
7. West Rapids Elementary 38
8. Middle Area Learning Center -

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Grand Rapids

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 Itaskin Education Center 51.1/100
  2. 2 Grand Rapids Early Childhood Center 36.3/100
  3. 3 Middle Area Learning Center 35.6/100
  4. 4 Grand Rapids Area Learning Center 30.9/100
  5. 5 East Rapids Elementary 30.2/100

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Which Grand Rapids school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Robert J. Elkington Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Grand Rapids schools in this federal-data comparison at 57/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Grand Rapids, MN? ▼

Grand Rapids has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,391 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 17.6:1.

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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.