Edward Neill Elementary

As a reasonably sized elementary-level community in BURNSVILLE, Minnesota, Edward Neill Elementary enrolls 377 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under Burnsville-Eagan-Savage Schools.

Within Burnsville-Eagan-Savage Schools, which oversees 19 schools and 7,663 students, Edward Neill Elementary is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Edward Neill Elementary reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (37%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 27% White, 21% Black, 8% multiracial, 6% Asian. By comparison, Dakota County as a whole is about 9% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Edward Neill Elementary logs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.4:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Dakota County's rate of about 34%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Edward Neill Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.0%; this one delivers 31.7%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Dakota County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $106,318 per year, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Dakota County's 170 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,687 students), Edward Neill Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Vista View Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Edward Neill Elementary comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.8%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Edward Neill Elementary's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 369 (now 377). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 15% to 37%. Class-load math has widened: from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

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