AFTON-LAKELAND ELEMENTARY

AFTON-LAKELAND ELEMENTARY is a mid-tier elementary-level community in LAKELAND, Minnesota, overseen by Stillwater Area Public Schools. The school hosts 437 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so AFTON-LAKELAND ELEMENTARY sits 27% above that benchmark.

Within Stillwater Area Public Schools, which oversees 16 schools and 8,455 students, AFTON-LAKELAND ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, AFTON-LAKELAND ELEMENTARY reports that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% Asian, 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting AFTON-LAKELAND ELEMENTARY higher than the state norm the norm. Around 16% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Washington County (around 26%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, AFTON-LAKELAND ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.6%, the actual is 67.4%, a residual of +10.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, Washington County reports that the typical household earns roughly $115,345 per year, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Washington County runs 103 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,313 students), of which AFTON-LAKELAND ELEMENTARY is one.

The closest other public school is River Crest Elementary, roughly 2.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), AFTON-LAKELAND ELEMENTARY ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 65.1%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 444 students in 2018 compared to 437 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.

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