SCHOOL AND DISTRICT PROFILE The Glyndon-Felton Elementary School is located at 513 Parke Ave S (at the intersection of Parke Ave S th
and 5 Street SE), in Glyndon, MN. It is centrally located on the west central edge of Glyndon, contiguous with urban residential development in the small city (Figure 9). The elementary school shares the same building as the Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton High School and serves students grades th
Kindergarten through 5 . On the first day of school in the 2015-16 th
school year, September 8 2015, the
Figure 10: The front entrance to the Glyndon-Felton Elementary School which is shared with the DGF High School.
school had an enrollment of 396. The breakdown of students per grade is shown in Table 1. It should be noted that the Glyndon-Felton th
Elementary School serves all 5 graders in the district, hence the higher numbers in that grade. Students in th
grades K through 4 are split between this school and the Dilworth Elementary School in the City of Dilworth. 33 percent of students at the Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton High School are eligible for free and reduced cost meals.
Table 1: Number of Students per Grade (First day - School Year 2015-2016)
The DGF School District itself is large, encompassing around 275 square miles; roughly one quarter of Clay County. The district is approximately 14 miles from east to west and 25 miles north to south. Roughly three fifths of the district is north of Glyndon and the U.S. Highway 10 corridor and reaches out into 14 townships all within Clay County. The furthest corner of the district is roughly 22 bee-line miles north-northeast from the school in Hagen Township on the border with neighboring Norman County (Figure 12).
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