Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 5
J Nelson Kelly Elementary School, Grand Forks, ND
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 482
- Teachers (FTE)
- 37.0
- Students per teacher
- 13.0
- Grades
- PK to 5
This school's ratio is 2.3 higher than the district figure of 10.7. The North Dakota average across schools is 11.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 3000 Cherry St, Grand Forks, ND 58201
- Phone
- (701)746-2265
- District
- Grand Forks 1 School District
- County
- Grand Forks County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- City: Small
- NCES school ID
- 380813000255
School meals
- Free lunch
- 46
- Reduced-price lunch
- 21
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 6713.9% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 46Students 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.
Related schools
Other elementary schools in Grand Forks 1 School District
- Discovery Elementary School 567 students
- Century Elementary School 493 students
- Lake Agassiz Elementary School 464 students
- Ben Franklin Elementary School 367 students
- Viking Elementary School 328 students
- Phoenix Elementary School 235 students
- Nathan Twining Elementary School 228 students
- Winship Elementary School 212 students
- Wilder Elementary School 184 students
- Lewis and Clark Elementary School 178 students
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
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.