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Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton Elementary
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MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton Elementary
Set in DILWORTH, Minnesota, Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton Elementary is a substantial elementary school, one of the schools within DILWORTH-GLYNDON-FELTON. It enrolls 555 students across grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 61% above the state mean of about 344.
Within DILWORTH-GLYNDON-FELTON, which oversees 4 schools and 1,535 students, Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton Elementary is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton Elementary lists that nearly all students (83%) are White; the rest comes out to 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. Compared to Clay County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton Elementary has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 36% of students at Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 45.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.7%.
Around the school, census data for Clay County shows median household earnings sit near $81,172, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Clay County runs 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,470 students), of which Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton Elementary is one.
HORIZON MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton Elementary. On composite proficiency, Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton Elementary comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 39.6%.
The campus sits in a suburban setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 9%: 507 students in 2018 compared to 555 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 5% to 10%.
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