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Enrollment
686
Elementary
DISTRICT 640 · STATE 344
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN·NCES 273239001375
DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES
14455 DIAMOND PATH, APPLE VALLEY, MN 55124 · (952) 423-7695 · Dakota County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL686 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 72% of Minnesota public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Minnesota public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
30%
209 students
DISTRICT 33% · STATE 48%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 110 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 105 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 111 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 115 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 111 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 134 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (110) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (134).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 60% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsEnglish Language Arts
62.6%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
58.1%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
Source: MCA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
56.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.7%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Minnesota's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES
DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES's state test result (56.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES this school | 686 | 30.5% | 56.0% |
| Dayton Elementary DAYTON | 556 | 29.0% | 51.0% |
| Jackson Elementary SHAKOPEE | 683 | 34.3% | 51.4% |
| DEERWOOD ELEMENTARY EAGAN | 528 | 29.4% | 51.9% |
| HIGHLAND ELEMENTARY APPLE VALLEY | 662 | 26.9% | 50.4% |
| ELM CREEK ELEMENTARY MAPLE GROVE | 565 | 33.1% | 50.5% |
Matched among Minnesota elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In Dakota County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 56.0% | #224 of 844 | #18 of 60 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.1% | #308 of 844 | #22 of 60 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.6% | #148 of 844 | #13 of 60 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 686 | #90 of 1,130 | #10 of 73 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #490 of 769 | #37 of 58 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.1% | #213 of 796 | #25 of 59 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 30.5% | #679 of 942 | #39 of 66 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.4% | #334 of 499 | #25 of 36 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
686
-29 (-4%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 716
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 14.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 686 | 47.1 | 14.6:1 | 30% (209) |
| 2023-24 | 676 | 47.3 | 14.3:1 | 30% (204) |
| 2022-23 | 677 | 44.5 | 15.2:1 | 30% (205) |
| 2020-21 | 715 | 49 | 14.6:1 | 13% (90) |
| 2017-18 | 757 | 47.4 | 16.0:1 | 20% (150) |
| 2015-16 | 805 | 45 | 17.9:1 | 22% (175) |
| 2010-11 | 742 | 45 | 16.5:1 | 19% (143) |
| 2000-01 | 646 | 38 | 17.0:1 | 11% (71) |
| 1990-91 | 716 | 32 | 22.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (757 to 686); teachers down 1% (47.4 to 47.1).
About DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES
DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES is a large elementary school in APPLE VALLEY, Minnesota, (ZIP code 55124). School enrollment was 686 students in 2024-25, in kindergarten through 5. The average among elementary schools in Minnesota is roughly 344 students; this school is 99% bigger than that.
ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN counts 36 schools and 29,224 students, including DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES.
DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES is 55% White by enrollment. Beyond that, enrollment is 13% Hispanic, 11% Black, 11% multiracial, and 9% Asian. In Dakota County overall, about 74% of residents are White. Pick two students at random and there is a 65% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school employs the equivalent of 47.1 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 14.6:1. That is higher than the 13.7:1 average for elementary schools in Minnesota. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 30%.
The allk12 Grade for DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES is B+. Compared with Minnesota public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 72% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 56.0%, compared with a predicted 48.7%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Minnesota schools on BeatsExpectations.
Federal survey data for Dakota County show that the median household income is $106,318, roughly 45% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 170 public schools in Dakota County, enrolling about 74,687 students in all.
Nearby, DAKOTA RIDGE SCHOOL is about 0.1 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES at 2nd of 4.
In the federal locale system, DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment at DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES declined 4% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 715 to 686 students.
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Dakota County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
445,771
Census ACS
Median income
$106,318
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
170
74,687 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN
- ROSEMOUNT SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,364 students
- EASTVIEW SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,328 students
- EAGAN SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,274 students
- APPLE VALLEY SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,999 students
- SCOTT HIGHLANDS MIDDLEMiddle · 1,228 students
- DAKOTA HILLS MIDDLEMiddle · 1,184 students
Other schools in APPLE VALLEY
- EASTVIEW SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,328 students
- APPLE VALLEY SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,999 students
- SCOTT HIGHLANDS MIDDLEMiddle · 1,228 students
- Valley Middle School of STEMMiddle · 1,090 students
- FALCON RIDGE MIDDLEMiddle · 1,088 students
- GREENLEAF ELEMENTARYElementary · 747 students
Nearby schools
- DAKOTA RIDGE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 101
- ABE Diploma Program0.2 mi · 40
- Dakota Valley Learning Center0.2 mi · 584
- SCOTT HIGHLANDS MIDDLE1.0 mi · 1,228
- HIGHLAND ELEMENTARY1.1 mi · 662
- 917 TEA1.3 mi · 41
Frequently asked questions
About DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIESHow many students attend DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES?
DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES enrolls approximately 686 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES serve?
DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES?
Approximately 14.6:1 students per teacher at DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES.
What is the student diversity at DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES?
Student demographics at DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES are roughly 55% White, 13% Hispanic, 11% Black, 9% Asian, 11% Two or more.
What district is DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES in?
DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES is part of ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN.
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