CHANHASSEN ELEMENTARY

CHANHASSEN ELEMENTARY, a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in CHANHASSEN, Minnesota, overseen by EASTERN CARVER COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL, educates 447 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so CHANHASSEN ELEMENTARY sits 30% larger than that benchmark.

EASTERN CARVER COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL runs 19 schools in total, collectively educating 9,274 students. CHANHASSEN ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

Demographically, CHANHASSEN ELEMENTARY records that White students make up the majority at 73%; the rest comes out to 9% Black, 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.

In terms of school funding signals, CHANHASSEN ELEMENTARY logs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 19% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, CHANHASSEN ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 65.8%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Carver County indicate the typical household earns roughly $125,946 per year, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. CHANHASSEN ELEMENTARY is one of 57 public schools in Carver County (combined enrollment of about 18,076 students).

SWMetro Annica Program is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CHANHASSEN ELEMENTARY comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 60.2%.

CHANHASSEN ELEMENTARY operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CHANHASSEN ELEMENTARY has fell 6%, going from 475 students in 2018 to 447 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked up from 3% to 9%. Class-load math has fell: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

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