CONGDON ELEMENTARY

CONGDON ELEMENTARY, a medium-sized K-5 school in DULUTH, Minnesota, part of DULUTH PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, educates 474 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so CONGDON ELEMENTARY sits 38% bigger than that benchmark.

CONGDON ELEMENTARY is one of 31 schools operated by DULUTH PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that educates 8,994 students overall.

On demographics, CONGDON ELEMENTARY shows that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 7% multiracial, 4% Hispanic.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of St. Louis County's rate of about 40%.

With demographic context factored in, CONGDON ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 64.7%.

In the broader community, St. Louis County reports that the typical household earns roughly $70,069 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across St. Louis County's 100 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,921 students), CONGDON ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is ORDEAN EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CONGDON ELEMENTARY comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 47.6%.

CONGDON ELEMENTARY operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. CONGDON ELEMENTARY's enrollment has ticked down 20% since 2018, when it stood at 596 (now 474). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 21.3:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.

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