Summary:
Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Elementary is the only elementary school in the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa School District, serving grades PK–5 to about 294 students at 245 School Avenue in Brooten, a small community in central Minnesota. Because it is the district's sole elementary campus, there are no sibling schools to compare it against — the most useful benchmarks are the school's own year-over-year results, its district averages, and statewide figures.
Science was the clearest bright spot in 2025–2026, with 31.6% of students proficient — above both the district (18.9%) and the state (25.5%) — a jump from 17.39% the year before. Math was more mixed: 41.8% proficient across all grades, above the district's 33.4% but below the state's 44.9%, and proficiency fell by grade level from 52.9% in 3rd grade to 44.0% in 4th and 29.8% in 5th. Reading overall was close to average at 46.8%, just 1.8 points below the state, with 5th grade reading a strength at 57.9% (above the state's 54.5%) while 3rd and 4th grade reading trailed the state.
In SchoolDigger's rankings, the school slipped from 337 of 881 schools (62nd percentile, 3 stars) in 2023–2024 to 457 of 872 (48th percentile, 2 stars) in 2024–2025 and 481 of 869 (45th percentile, 2 stars) in 2025–2026 — still above the district's own standing of 297 of 458 (35th percentile, 2 stars). About 39.8% of students qualified for free or reduced lunch in 2024–2025, and the student-teacher ratio of 12.2 implies roughly 24 teachers. Note that the reading exam label changed between years (MCA-IV versus MCA-III), so year-over-year reading comparisons should be read with caution.
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