Regular local school district · Clay County
Moorhead Area Public Schools, MN: schools, enrollment and spending
Moorhead Area Public Schools runs 17 public schools with 7,571 students in grades PK to 12. Its ratio of 15.5 students per teacher is about the same as the Minnesota figure of 15.2.
At a glance
- Schools
- 17
- Students
- 7,571
- Teachers (FTE)
- 487
- Students per teacher
- 15.5
- MN: 15.2 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 1313 30th Ave S, Moorhead, MN 56560
- Phone
- (218)284-3300
- County
- Clay County
- Locale
- Suburb: Midsize
- Grades offered
- PK to 12
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 2721420
- State district ID
- MN-010152
- Total staff (FTE)
- 991
- School counselors (FTE)
- 15.0About 505 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 21.0
Students per teacher compared
This district15.5
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 (7,143), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $116.4 million
- Federal revenue
- $13.3 million
- State revenue
- $79.9 million
- Local revenue
- $23.2 million
- Total spending
- $133.4 million
- Spending per pupil
- $18,676
- Salaries
- $61.0 million45.7% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $214.0 million
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 11.4%
- State: 68.7%
- Local: 19.9%
Minnesota overall
- Federal: 9.4%
- State: 63.0%
- Local: 27.6%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$18,676
Minnesota$17,873
United States$16,826
Schools in Moorhead Area Public Schools
By level: 6 high, 1 middle, 6 elementary, 2 prekindergarten, 2 other. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Dorothy Dodds Elementary School | Elementary | K to 4 | 625 | 13.3 |
| Ellen Hopkins ElementaryCEP school | Elementary | K to 4 | 616 | 14.3 |
| Horizon Middle School | Middle | 5 to 8 | 2,158 | 17.0 |
| Moorhead ALC | High | 5 to 12 | 138 | 9.9 |
| Moorhead ALC - Barnesville | High | 7 to 12 | 0 | |
| Moorhead ALC: DGF Secondary | High | 9 to 12 | 0 | |
| Moorhead High School | High | 9 to 12 | 2,122 | 19.1 |
| Moorhead High School Career Academy | High | 9 to 12 | 0 | |
| Moorhead Online Elementary Academy | Elementary | K to 6 | 0 | |
| Moorhead Online Secondary Academy | High | 7 to 12 | 0 | |
| Moorhead Voluntary PreKindergarten | Prekindergarten | PK | 20 | |
| Probstfield Center for Education | Prekindergarten | PK | 253 | 7.4 |
| Probstfield Elementary | Elementary | K to 4 | 290 | 41.4 |
| Robert Asp Elementary | Elementary | K to 4 | 580 | 13.5 |
| S.G. Reinertsen Elementary | Elementary | K to 4 | 719 | 13.8 |
| West Central Academy-N | Other | 3 to 12 | 16 | |
| West Central Academy-S | Other | 4 to 12 | 34 | 8.5 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Clay County
- Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton School District 1,535 students
- Hawley Public School District 1,058 students
- Barnesville Public School Dist. 870 students
- Ulen-Hitterdal Public School Dist 302 students
- Lake Agassiz Education Cooperative 134 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.