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DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES
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MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsBeatsExpectations
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES
DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES is an elementary campus of sizable scale in APPLE VALLEY, Minnesota, run under ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN, educateing 686 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES sits 99% bigger than that benchmark.
ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN runs 36 schools in total, collectively educating 29,224 students. DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES shows that 55% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 11% Black, 11% multiracial, 9% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.
On the resource side, The school currently runs with 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 30% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.7%; this one delivers 56.0%.
In the area at large, Dakota County reports that the typical household earns roughly $106,318 per year, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Dakota County's 170 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,687 students), DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: DAKOTA RIDGE SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES at 2nd of 4; the average score across the group is 53.0%.
Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES has decreased 9%, going from 757 students in 2018 to 686 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 61% to 55% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.
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