Public school / Primary
Park Rapids Area Century Elementary
Park Rapids, Minnesota
- NCES ID
- 272808001233
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Park Rapids Area Century Elementary is a public primary school in Park Rapids, Minnesota, run by Park Rapids Public School District. It enrols 618 students — the 25208th largest of 2,771 public schools in Minnesota.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
618
Teachers
51.0
Students per teacher
12.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
62.3%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Park Rapids Public School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Park Rapids Area Century Elementary618 students
- 2Park Rapids Area Century Middle497 students
- 3Park Rapids Senior High497 students
- 4Frank White Education Center80 students
- 5Headwaters Educ Learning Program59 students
- 6Park Rapids Virtual Academy Middle10 students
- 7Park Rapids Virtual Academy High4 students
- Enrollment+105.3%
- Teachers+142.9%
- Students per teacher−17.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+27.4%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory