Regular local school district · Wright County
Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose Schools, MN: schools, enrollment and spending
Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose Schools runs 11 public schools with 5,175 students in grades PK to 12. Its ratio of 17.7 students per teacher is 2.5 higher than the Minnesota figure of 15.2.
At a glance
- Schools
- 11
- Students
- 5,175
- Teachers (FTE)
- 292
- Students per teacher
- 17.7
- MN: 15.2 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 214 1st Ave NE, Buffalo, MN 55313
- Phone
- (763)682-8707
- County
- Wright County
- Locale
- Town: Fringe
- Grades offered
- PK to 12
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 2707200
- State district ID
- MN-010877
- Total staff (FTE)
- 634
- School counselors (FTE)
- 5.0About 1,035 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 15.0
Students per teacher compared
This district17.7
Minnesota15.2
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (5,500), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $89.7 million
- Federal revenue
- $7.5 million
- State revenue
- $56.2 million
- Local revenue
- $26.0 million
- Total spending
- $79.4 million
- Spending per pupil
- $14,431
- Salaries
- $41.6 million52.4% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $56.2 million
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 8.4%
- State: 62.7%
- Local: 29.0%
Minnesota overall
- Federal: 9.4%
- State: 63.0%
- Local: 27.6%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$14,431
Minnesota$17,873
United States$16,826
Schools in Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose Schools
By level: 3 high, 1 middle, 6 elementary, 1 prekindergarten. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Buffalo Community Middle | Middle | 6 to 8 | 1,160 | 21.5 |
| Buffalo Early Child. Sp. Ed Program | Prekindergarten | PK | 150 | 16.7 |
| Buffalo Senior High | High | 9 to 12 | 1,681 | 24.0 |
| Discovery Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 257 | 17.1 |
| Hanover Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 368 | 18.4 |
| Montrose Elementary School of Innov | Elementary | PK to 5 | 363 | 14.5 |
| Northwinds Elementary | Elementary | K to 5 | 419 | 15.0 |
| Parkside Elementary | Elementary | PK to 5 | 348 | 12.9 |
| Phoenix Learning Center | High | 9 to 12 | 36 | 18.0 |
| Pride Transitions | High | 12 | 0 | |
| Tatanka Elementary STEM School | Elementary | K to 5 | 393 | 15.1 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Wright County
- St. Michael-Albertville Schools 6,795 students
- Monticello Public School District 4,013 students
- Delano Public School District 2,457 students
- Dassel-Cokato Public Schools 2,020 students
- Annandale Public School District 2,006 students
- Rockford Public School District 1,565 students
- Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted School District 1,312 students
- Maple Lake Public School District 744 students
- Kaleidoscope Charter School 493 students
- Meeker and Wright Special Education 190 students
- Sherburne and Northern Wright Speci 170 students
- Swan River Montessori Charter Sch 161 students
- Terra Nova School 84 students
- Wright Technical Center 84 students
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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. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.