ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY

ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY is a low-enrollment elementary campus in ALDEN, Minnesota, run under ALDEN-CONGER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school instructs 229 students in grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 33% below the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.

ALDEN-CONGER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 444 students. ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). The remainder comes out to 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 34% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Freeborn County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.5%, the actual is 38.1%, a residual of -8.4 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Freeborn County put median household earnings sit near $71,023, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY is one of 19 public schools in Freeborn County (combined enrollment of about 4,061 students).

ALDEN-CONGER SECONDARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 36.5%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Five-year trend. ALDEN-CONGER ELEMENTARY's enrollment has declined 13% since 2018, when it stood at 264 (now 229). White enrollment moved from 95% to 90% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 today.

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