Elementary · Minnesota
Discovery Elementary
Discovery Elementary, a public elementary school in Buffalo, Minnesota: grades k–5, 257 students, 16.6 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose Schools.
Size and class size
Compared with elementary schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 257
- Teachers (FTE)
- 15.4
- Students per teacher
- 16.6
- Grades
- K–5
- Elementary
More students per teacher than 88% of elementary schools in Minnesota
Median 13.3 · 967 schools compared
More students per teacher than 71% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Smaller than 69% of elementary schools in Minnesota
Median 389 · 1,009 schools compared
Smaller than 80% of elementary schools in the US
Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Elementary · Grades K–5
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Area
- Town near a city
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose Schools.
Location
- Address
- 301 2ND Ave NE, Buffalo, MN 55313
- Phone
- (763)682-8400
- City or town
- Buffalo
- County
- Wright County
Nearby elementary schools
The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-K–5 | 348 | 12.8 | |
| K–5 | 393 | 14.9 | |
| K–5 | 419 | 14.8 | |
| Pre-K–6 | 404 | 12.2 | |
| Pre-K–5 | 363 | 14.4 | |
| K–5 | 65 | — |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level.
NCES 270720002686