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ANNANDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Minnesota's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ANNANDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
As a substantial elementary school in ANNANDALE, Minnesota, ANNANDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL caters to 929 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within ANNANDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so ANNANDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 170% bigger than that benchmark.
Within ANNANDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 3 schools and 2,006 students, ANNANDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, ANNANDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that nearly all students (92%) are White. Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at school resources, The school lists 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.3:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 27% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
With demographic context factored in, ANNANDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.3%, the actual is 54.2%, a residual of +3.9 points.
In the area at large, Wright County reports that median household earnings sit near $107,209, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Wright County's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,879 students), ANNANDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
ANNANDALE SENIOR HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around ANNANDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ANNANDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 50.1%.
The school occupies a rural site.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 3%: 902 students in 2018 compared to 929 in 2025.
In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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