Crosslake Community Seat Based

Crosslake Community Seat Based is one of the modestly sized primary schools in CROSSLAKE, Minnesota, run under CROSSLAKE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL, with 150 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. That puts it 56% below the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.

CROSSLAKE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 494 students; Crosslake Community Seat Based is among them.

On the student-mix side, Crosslake Community Seat Based shows that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 7% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Around 37% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Crosslake Community Seat Based performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.4%, the actual is 43.7%, a residual of -1.7 points.

In the area at large, census data for Crow Wing County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,589 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Crow Wing County's 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,399 students), Crosslake Community Seat Based is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Crosslake Community 6-12 Online, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Crosslake Community Seat Based ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 49.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area. Crosslake Community Seat Based is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Crosslake Community Seat Based's enrollment has increased 4% since 2018, when it stood at 144 (now 150). White enrollment moved from 95% to 87% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 8.3:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.