Charter agency · Cook County
Great Expectations, MN: schools, enrollment and spending
Great Expectations runs 1 public school with 113 students in grades K to 8. Its ratio of 9.4 students per teacher is 5.8 lower than the Minnesota figure of 15.2.Listed in NCES data as "GREAT EXPECTATIONS".
At a glance
- Schools
- 1
- Students
- 113
- Teachers (FTE)
- 12
- Students per teacher
- 9.4
- MN: 15.2 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 550 E 5th St, Grand Marais, MN 55604
- Phone
- (218)387-9322
- County
- Cook County
- Locale
- Rural: Remote
- Grades offered
- K to 8
- Agency type
- Charter agency
- NCES district ID
- 2700339
- State district ID
- MN-074100
- Total staff (FTE)
- 28
- School counselors (FTE)
- 0.0
- School administrators (FTE)
- 1.0
- Charter schools
- 1
Students per teacher compared
This district9.4
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 (111), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $1.7 million
- Federal revenue
- $135,000
- State revenue
- $1.6 million
- Local revenue
- $38,000
- Total spending
- $1.8 million
- Spending per pupil
- $16,126
- Salaries
- $964,00053.9% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $0
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 7.8%
- State: 90.0%
- Local: 2.2%
Minnesota overall
- Federal: 9.4%
- State: 63.0%
- Local: 27.6%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$16,126
Minnesota$17,873
United States$16,826
Schools in Great Expectations
By level: 1 elementary. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Great ExpectationsCharter | Elementary | K to 8 | 113 | 9.4 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Cook County
- Cook County Public Schools 475 students
- Birch Grove Community School 45 students
- Oshki Ogimaag Charter School 19 students
More in Minnesota
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.