E.C.H.O. Elementary

E.C.H.O. Elementary is an one-room-style primary school in ECHO, Minnesota, operated by E.C.H.O. CHARTER SCHOOL. The school enrolls 27 students in grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 344 students per school, that is 92% smaller than typical.

E.C.H.O. CHARTER SCHOOL comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 65 students; E.C.H.O. Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, E.C.H.O. Elementary shows that the largest single group is White, at 67% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 26% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting E.C.H.O. Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 74% of students at E.C.H.O. Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Yellow Medicine County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Yellow Medicine County indicate the typical household earns roughly $74,000 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Yellow Medicine County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,274 students), E.C.H.O. Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: E.C.H.O. Secondary, around 0.0 miles off.

The campus sits in a small-town setting. E.C.H.O. Elementary operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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