BAYVIEW ELEMENTARY

BAYVIEW ELEMENTARY is one of the high-enrollment elementary-level communitys in WACONIA, Minnesota, operated by WACONIA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 530 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so BAYVIEW ELEMENTARY sits 54% above that benchmark.

BAYVIEW ELEMENTARY is one of 10 schools operated by WACONIA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that caters to 3,984 students overall.

On the student-mix side, BAYVIEW ELEMENTARY reports that nearly all students (87%) are White. Beyond that, the school logs 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, BAYVIEW ELEMENTARY has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Roughly 16% of students at BAYVIEW ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BAYVIEW ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.5%, the actual is 61.9%, a residual of +5.5 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Carver County put median household income runs about $125,946, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Carver County runs 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,076 students), of which BAYVIEW ELEMENTARY is one.

TRANSITIONS 110 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BAYVIEW ELEMENTARY ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 56.6%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 14%: 615 students in 2018 compared to 530 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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