EDEN VALLEY ELEMENTARY

Located at 901 STEARNS AVE E, in EDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, EDEN VALLEY ELEMENTARY is a middle-of-the-pack primary school that hosts 383 students (grades K through 6), operated by EDEN VALLEY-WATKINS SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Across the 3 schools in EDEN VALLEY-WATKINS SCHOOL DISTRICT (868 students total), EDEN VALLEY ELEMENTARY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, EDEN VALLEY ELEMENTARY logs that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting EDEN VALLEY ELEMENTARY higher than the state norm the norm. Around 31% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Stearns County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, EDEN VALLEY ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.4%, the actual is 55.2%, a residual of +6.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Stearns County put the typical household earns roughly $77,066 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Stearns County runs 74 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,160 students), of which EDEN VALLEY ELEMENTARY is one.

Nearest neighbor: EDEN VALLEY SECONDARY, around 0.5 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), EDEN VALLEY ELEMENTARY ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 44.2%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. EDEN VALLEY ELEMENTARY's enrollment has declined 17% since 2018, when it stood at 459 (now 383).

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