Bishop Elementary School

Bishop Elementary School is one of the sprawling primary schools in ROCHESTER, Minnesota, one of the schools within Rochester Public School District, with 545 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 58% larger than the state mean of about 344.

Across the 44 schools in Rochester Public School District (17,171 students total), Bishop Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Bishop Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White at 52%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest is composed of 14% Black, 13% Asian, 12% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

On the resource side, Around 37% 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, Bishop Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.0%, the actual is 48.4%, a residual of +3.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Olmsted County) logs that median household income runs about $95,406, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Olmsted County's 72 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,627 students), Bishop Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Sunset Terrace Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bishop Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bishop Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 42.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Bishop Elementary School's enrollment has rose 9% since 2018, when it stood at 502 (now 545). The White share of enrollment edged down from 72% to 52% over that span.

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