East Lake Elementary School

Set in LAKEVILLE, Minnesota, East Lake Elementary School is a sizable elementary campus, run under ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN. It educates 844 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 145% above the state mean of about 344.

ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN runs 36 schools in total, collectively educating 29,224 students. East Lake Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, East Lake Elementary School shows that White students make up the majority at 64%. Other groups include 10% Asian, 9% Black, 8% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, East Lake Elementary School has 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. About 18% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Dakota County (around 34%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), East Lake Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.6%, the actual is 61.3%, a residual of +5.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, Dakota County reports that median household earnings sit near $106,318, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. East Lake Elementary School is one of 170 public schools in Dakota County (combined enrollment of about 74,687 students).

NORTH TRAIL 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. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), East Lake Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 47.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. East Lake Elementary School's enrollment has grew 52% since 2018, when it stood at 554 (now 844). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 77% to 64%. Class-load math has fell: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.