Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 4

Cass Lake-Bena Elementary, Cass Lake, MN

CEP schoolCass Lake-Bena Elementary is a public elementary school in Cass Lake, part of Cass Lake-Bena Public Schools. It enrolled 450 students in 2024-25, with 10.2 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "CASS LAKE-BENA ELEMENTARY".

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 450
Teachers (FTE): 44.0
Students per teacher: 10.2
Grades: PK to 4

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 10.7. The Minnesota average across schools is 15.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school10.2

District10.7

Minnesota15.2

United States15.3

School details

Address: 15 4th St NW, Cass Lake, MN 56633
Phone: (218)335-2201
District: Cass Lake-Bena Public Schools
County: Cass County
Level: Elementary
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Rural: Remote
NCES school ID: 270807000330

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School meals

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

Free lunch: 355
Reduced-price lunch: 29
Free or reduced-price lunch: 38485.3% of enrollment.
Direct certification: 345Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision: Yes (CEP school)

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.