Summary:
Brooten, Minnesota has just one listed elementary school: Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Elementary, which serves grades PK–5 and enrolls 294 students as part of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa School District. Because it is the only elementary school in the city, there are no side-by-side comparisons with other local schools, so the most useful benchmarks are how it performs against its own district, against Minnesota averages, and against its own results from prior years. For context, the school has a student-teacher ratio of 12.2 students per teacher, and 39.8% of students qualified for free or reduced lunch in 2024–25, a moderate poverty indicator.
Science is clearly the school's strongest area. In 2025–26, 31.6% of students were proficient in science, well above the district's 18.9% and the state's 25.5%, and a large jump from 17.39% the year before. Fifth-grade reading also stood out at 57.9% proficient, above the state's 54.5%, and fifth-grade science reached 31.6% versus the state's 25.9%. Overall, the school outperformed its district in math by 8.4 points and in science by 12.7 points, suggesting it is performing somewhat better than its surrounding district context.
The main concerns are in math and reading. Both declined year over year and slipped below state averages in 2025–26: math fell to 41.8% (state 44.9%) and reading to 46.8% (state 48.6%). Math shows a steady grade-level drop, from 52.9% proficient in 3rd grade to 44.0% in 4th and 29.8% in 5th, the lowest result reported. Reading was uneven, with 5th grade well above the state but 4th grade 8.8 points below it. Reflecting these trends, the school's overall rating fell from 3 stars and the 62nd percentile in 2023–24 to 2 stars and the 45th percentile in 2025–26.
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