Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 5

Birch Grove Community School, Tofte, MN

Charter schoolBirch Grove Community School is a public elementary school in Tofte, part of Birch Grove Community School. It enrolled 45 students in 2024-25, with 11.2 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "BIRCH GROVE COMMUNITY SCHOOL".

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 45
Teachers (FTE): 4.0
Students per teacher: 11.2
Grades: K to 5

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 11.2. The Minnesota average across schools is 15.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school11.2

District11.2

Minnesota15.2

United States15.3

School details

Address: 9 Goodneighbor Hill Rd, Tofte, MN 55615
Phone: (218)663-0170
District: Birch Grove Community School
County: Cook County
Level: Elementary
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: Yes
Virtual: No
Locale: Rural: Remote
NCES school ID: 270025503313

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 19
Reduced-price lunch: 4
Free or reduced-price lunch: 2351.1% of enrollment.
Direct certification: 19Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision: No

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.