About Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools
Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools is a public school system serving Benton County, Minnesota, based in Sauk Rapids. It serves 4,331 students across 8 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a suburb: mid-size district. By enrollment it is the #44 largest of Minnesota’s 535 school systems.
Size and structure
Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools enrolls 4,331 students in 8 schools — an average of about 541 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #44 of 535 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools, from the NCES Common Core of Data (4,331 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools employs about 272 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 15.9:1 — above the Minnesota average of about 15.0:1. Total district staff is roughly 562.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How Minnesota funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
Minnesota’s accountability system, North Star, is published through the Minnesota Report Card, covering achievement, growth, graduation, progress toward English-language proficiency and consistent attendance rather than a single A–F grade. Look up Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools on the Minnesota Report Card.
Accreditation status
Minnesota has no state accreditation requirement for public districts; where districts pursue voluntary accreditation they generally work with Cognia, the de facto K-12 accreditor. Look up Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools in the free Cognia registry.
Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools vs. Minnesota
See every Minnesota district side by side in the Minnesota directory.
Look up Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):