COKATO ELEMENTARY

Located at 200 5TH ST SW, in COKATO, Minnesota, COKATO ELEMENTARY is a moderately sized elementary school that teaches 401 students (grades pre-K through 4), part of Dassel-Cokato Public Schools.

Within Dassel-Cokato Public Schools, which oversees 5 schools and 2,020 students, COKATO ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, COKATO ELEMENTARY logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). Other groups include 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. Compared to Wright County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, COKATO ELEMENTARY has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting COKATO ELEMENTARY higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 33% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Wright County (around 24%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, COKATO ELEMENTARY sits in the top 10% of Minnesota schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 47.4%; actual is 68.7%, +21.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, census data for Wright County shows the typical household earns roughly $107,209 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. COKATO ELEMENTARY is one of 88 public schools in Wright County (combined enrollment of about 27,879 students).

Nearest neighbor: DASSEL-COKATO ALTERNATIVE CTR., around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around COKATO ELEMENTARY. On composite proficiency, COKATO ELEMENTARY comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 59.0%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at COKATO ELEMENTARY has contracted 20%, going from 500 students in 2018 to 401 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.

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