Crooked Lake Elementary

Crooked Lake Elementary operates as a mid-tier primary school in ANDOVER, Minnesota, run under Anoka-Hennepin School District. Current enrollment sits at 438 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so Crooked Lake Elementary sits 27% above that benchmark.

Across the 53 schools in Anoka-Hennepin School District (38,746 students total), Crooked Lake Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Crooked Lake Elementary logs that 71% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school lists 8% Black, 8% Asian, 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 33% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Anoka County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Crooked Lake Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.4%; this one delivers 58.7%.

In the area at large, census data for Anoka County shows median household earnings sit near $101,869, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Anoka County's 145 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,656 students), Crooked Lake Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: BRIDGES, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Crooked Lake Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 49.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 12%: 500 students in 2018 compared to 438 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 86% to 71% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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