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How has COKATO ELEMENTARY changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
401
Elementary
DISTRICT 383 · STATE 344
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DASSEL-COKATO PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 271006000426
COKATO ELEMENTARY
200 5TH ST SW, COKATO, MN 55321 · (320) 286-4100 · Wright County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY42-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL401 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
33%
132 students
DISTRICT 31% · STATE 48%
Community
3
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsEnglish Language Arts
62.5%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
81.3%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
Source: MCA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of MN schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
68.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.4%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+21.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 47% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 21 points, placing it in Minnesota's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
401
-99 (-20%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
was 16.0:1
% White
92%
was 91%
% Hispanic
3%
was 4%
% Black
0%
was 2%
% Asian
0%
was 1%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About 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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Wright County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
148,269
Census ACS
Median income
$107,209
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
88
27,879 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Dassel-Cokato Public Schools
- DASSEL-COKATO SENIOR HIGHHigh · 601 students
- DASSEL-COKATO MIDDLEMiddle · 576 students
- DASSEL ELEMENTARYElementary · 364 students
- DASSEL-COKATO ALTERNATIVE CTR.High · 78 students
- Dassel-Cokato Virtual School ELElementary
- Dassel-Cokato Virtual School MiddleMiddle
Other schools in COKATO
- DASSEL-COKATO SENIOR HIGHHigh · 601 students
- DASSEL-COKATO MIDDLEMiddle · 576 students
- DASSEL-COKATO ALTERNATIVE CTR.High · 78 students
- Village Ranch Alternative ProgramHigh · 33 students
- Dassel-Cokato Virtual School ELElementary
- Dassel-Cokato Virtual School MiddleMiddle
Nearby schools
- DASSEL-COKATO ALTERNATIVE CTR.0.4 mi · 78
- Village Ranch Alternative Program1.4 mi · 33
- DASSEL-COKATO MIDDLE2.1 mi · 576
- DASSEL-COKATO SENIOR HIGH2.1 mi · 601
- DASSEL ELEMENTARY5.6 mi · 364
- Journeys Alternative Program6.0 mi · 9
Frequently asked questions
About COKATO ELEMENTARYHow many students attend COKATO ELEMENTARY?
COKATO ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 401 students in grades PK-04.
What grades does COKATO ELEMENTARY serve?
COKATO ELEMENTARY serves grades PK-04.
How many students per teacher at COKATO ELEMENTARY?
Approximately 14.7:1 students per teacher at COKATO ELEMENTARY.
How diverse is COKATO ELEMENTARY?
COKATO ELEMENTARY reports a student body of 92% White, 3% Hispanic, 0% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees COKATO ELEMENTARY?
COKATO ELEMENTARY is overseen by Dassel-Cokato Public Schools in Wright County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.