ALBANY ELEMENTARY

ALBANY ELEMENTARY is an elementary-level community of mid-tier scale in ALBANY, Minnesota, overseen by ALBANY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, instructing 380 students in grades 1 through 5.

ALBANY ELEMENTARY is one of 5 schools operated by ALBANY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that hosts 1,744 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ALBANY ELEMENTARY lists that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Stearns County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 24% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Stearns County's rate of about 44%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, ALBANY ELEMENTARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.3%; this one delivers 53.1%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Stearns County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $77,066 per year, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Stearns County runs 74 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,160 students), of which ALBANY ELEMENTARY is one.

The closest other public school is Albany Area High School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ALBANY ELEMENTARY comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 48.1%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 29%: 537 students in 2018 compared to 380 in 2025.

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