County / FIPS 27009
Benton County
Minnesota
Benton County runs 16 public schools reporting to NCES. No Medicare-certified hospital reports to CMS from here — a real finding about rural healthcare access, not a gap in this site; Minnesota has other facilities nearby.
At a glance
Public schools
16
Hospitals
0
With a star rating
0
Land area
408
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Benton County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$241.5M
Per resident
$5,836
Change since FY2021
+6%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $227M |
| 2022 | $190M |
| 2023 | $207M |
| 2024 | $237M |
| 2025 | $241M |
Figures are nominal — not adjusted for inflation — because USAspending publishes them that way and adjusting them here would mean this site had edited a government figure. The per-resident figure divides by the 2020 decennial count, which is the population USAspending carries; a 2020 denominator against 2025 spending overstates per-head figures wherever a place has grown since. Benton County ranks 1469th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Public schools in Benton County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foley Elementary | Foley Public School District | Foley | 569 |
| Foley Intermediate Elementary | Foley Public School District | Foley | 735 |
| Foley Senior High | Foley Public School District | Foley | 621 |
| Lincoln Elementary | St. Cloud Public School District | Saint Cloud | 396 |
| Mississippi Heights Elementary | Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools | Sauk Rapids | 848 |
| Pleasantview Elementary | Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools | Sauk Rapids | 712 |
| Rice Elementary | Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools | Rice | 372 |
| Sauk Rapids-Rice Middle School | Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools | Sauk Rapids | 1,045 |
| Sauk Rapids-Rice Senior High | Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools | Sauk Rapids | 1,394 |
| Benton Stearns Education District 1 | Benton-Stearns Education District | Sauk Rapids | 15 |
| Benton-Stearns Education District | Benton-Stearns Education District | Sauk Rapids | 19 |
| Hillside Early Childhood Center | Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools | Sauk Rapids | 52 |
| Sauk Rapids Ecfe | Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools | Sauk Rapids | — |
| Alc - Foley | St. Cloud Public School District | Foley | — |
| Alc - Sauk Rapids | St. Cloud Public School District | Sauk Rapids | — |
| Sauk Rapids-Rice Online School (Srr | Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools | Sauk Rapids | — |