AKIN ROAD ELEMENTARY

AKIN ROAD ELEMENTARY is one of the moderately sized K-5 schools in FARMINGTON, Minnesota, operated by FARMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 479 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 39% above the state mean of about 344.

FARMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 6,458 students. AKIN ROAD ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

On demographics, AKIN ROAD ELEMENTARY records that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 15% Hispanic, 10% Black, 8% multiracial, 5% Asian. By comparison, Dakota County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.9:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 30% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, AKIN ROAD ELEMENTARY sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 48.8%; actual is 35.7%, a gap of -13.1 points.

In the area at large, Dakota County reports that median household income runs about $106,318, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. AKIN ROAD ELEMENTARY is one of 170 public schools in Dakota County (combined enrollment of about 74,687 students).

The closest other public school is MEADOWVIEW ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, AKIN ROAD ELEMENTARY comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 41.9%.

AKIN ROAD ELEMENTARY operates from a commuter-belt location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 29%: 670 students in 2018 compared to 479 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 76% to 62% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

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