Elementary Schools in Cass Lake-Bena Public Schools

The Cass Lake-Bena Public Schools district in Minnesota has only one elementary school, Cass Lake-Bena Elementary, which serves grades PK-4 and has a total enrollment of 478 students. This school is performing below average compared to other elementary schools in the state, ranking 699 out of 881 Minnesota elementary schools for the 2023-2024 school year and receiving a low 1-star rating from SchoolDigger.

Cass Lake-Bena Elementary has a high percentage of Native American students (29.5%) and students of two or more races (65.9%), with low percentages of White (2.09%), Hispanic (2.51%), and no African American or Asian students. The school's proficiency rates on the MCA-III Math and Reading assessments are significantly lower than the state averages, with a 38.79% Math proficiency rate compared to the state's 45.47%, and a 30.12% Reading proficiency rate compared to the state's 49.85%. Additionally, the school has a very high percentage of students (85.36%) receiving free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a high level of economic disadvantage among the student population.

Despite the school's challenges, it has a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 10.7 to 1, which is better than the state average. This suggests the potential for targeted interventions and support to help improve student success. However, the school has been consistently low-performing, with a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger for the past three school years, indicating a need for significant improvements to address the racial and socioeconomic disparities in educational outcomes.