Crossroads School

Crossroads School, an one-room-style multi-level school in ANOKA, Minnesota, one of the schools within St. Francis Area Schools, hosts 16 students, covering grades K through 12. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 50 students each, so Crossroads School sits 68% below that benchmark.

St. Francis Area Schools runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 4,281 students. Crossroads School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Crossroads School records that the largest single group is White at 25%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 25% Black, 25% multiracial, 13% Native American, 6% Hispanic. By comparison, Anoka County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 3.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 6.4:1 average. Around 81% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Anoka County (around 42%), the school's rate is north of typical.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Anoka County put the typical household earns roughly $101,869 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Crossroads School is one of 145 public schools in Anoka County (combined enrollment of about 59,656 students).

St. Francis Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a rural site.

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