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Eagle Creek Elementary School
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 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 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Eagle Creek Elementary School
Eagle Creek Elementary School is an elementary campus of well-populated scale in SHAKOPEE, Minnesota, one of the schools within Shakopee Public School District, hosting 625 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 82% above the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.
Across the 12 schools in Shakopee Public School District (7,717 students total), Eagle Creek Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, Eagle Creek Elementary School shows that 45% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 18% Hispanic, 15% Black, 12% Asian, 8% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Eagle Creek Elementary School lists 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Eagle Creek Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 41% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Scott County runs at roughly 28%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, Eagle Creek Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.1%, the actual is 46.7%, a residual of +3.5 points.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Scott County indicate median household income runs about $119,314, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Across Scott County's 66 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,041 students), Eagle Creek Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Red Oak Elementary, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Eagle Creek Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 49.4%.
Eagle Creek Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 24%: 827 students in 2018 compared to 625 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 12% to 18% over that span.
Inside the community feed, the feed for Eagle Creek Elementary School typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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