Bridgewater Elementary
Northfield, MN · Elementary School
Bridgewater Elementary is a elementary school in Northfield, MN with 527 students enrolled and a 65% proficiency rate. Part of Northfield Public School District. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Bridgewater Elementary is a elementary school located in Northfield, Minnesota. The school serves 527 students. The student-to-teacher ratio is 13.2:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 65% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
30% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Bridgewater Elementary is part of the Northfield Public School District in Minnesota.
How This School Compares
Bridgewater Elementary has 527 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Northfield Public School District (386 students). Its 65% proficiency rate is 11 percentage points above the district average of 54%. Compared to the Minnesota state average of 50%, the school performs 15 points higher. With a 13.2:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.
Frequently Asked Questions
Bridgewater Elementary has 527 students enrolled. The student-to-teacher ratio is 13.2:1.
According to EDFacts data, 65% of students at Bridgewater Elementary meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Bridgewater Elementary is part of the Northfield Public School District in Northfield, Minnesota. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.