COUNTRYSIDE ELEMENTARY

COUNTRYSIDE ELEMENTARY operates as a sizable K-5 school in EDINA, Minnesota, run under EDINA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 665 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so COUNTRYSIDE ELEMENTARY sits 93% larger than that benchmark.

COUNTRYSIDE ELEMENTARY is one of 14 schools operated by EDINA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that educates 8,794 students overall.

Looking at the student body, COUNTRYSIDE ELEMENTARY reports that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 9% Hispanic, 6% Black, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian.

Looking at the economic backdrop, COUNTRYSIDE ELEMENTARY lists 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.2:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 15% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Hennepin County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), COUNTRYSIDE ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.9%, the actual is 67.3%, a residual of +10.4 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Hennepin County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. COUNTRYSIDE ELEMENTARY is one of 496 public schools in Hennepin County (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students).

The closest other public school is HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, COUNTRYSIDE ELEMENTARY comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 71.5%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. COUNTRYSIDE ELEMENTARY's enrollment has edged up 16% since 2018, when it stood at 573 (now 665). Hispanic enrollment moved from 4% to 9% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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