Adams Elementary

Adams Elementary is one of the medium-sized elementary schools in COON RAPIDS, Minnesota, one of the schools within Anoka-Hennepin School District, with 454 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 344 students per school, that is 32% above typical.

Anoka-Hennepin School District comprises 53 schools with combined enrollment of 38,746 students; Adams Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Adams Elementary reports that the most-represented group is White (34%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 26% Black, 16% Asian, 12% multiracial, 11% Hispanic. By comparison, Anoka County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Roughly 62% of students at Adams Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Anoka County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Adams Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 31.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 29.9%.

In the broader community, Anoka County reports that the typical household earns roughly $101,869 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Adams Elementary is one of 145 public schools in Anoka County (combined enrollment of about 59,656 students).

Riverview Early Childhood VPK is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Adams Elementary. On composite proficiency, Adams Elementary comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 29.8%.

Adams Elementary operates from a suburban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Adams Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 7% since 2018, when it stood at 489 (now 454). The White share of enrollment declined from 54% to 34% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 today.

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