Elementary Lighthouse

Elementary Lighthouse operates as an one-room-style elementary campus in SPRING LAKE PARK, Minnesota, part of SPRING LAKE PARK PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Current enrollment sits at 29 students spanning grades 1 through 6. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so Elementary Lighthouse sits 92% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 12 schools in SPRING LAKE PARK PUBLIC SCHOOLS (6,113 students total), Elementary Lighthouse accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Elementary Lighthouse shows that the largest single group is White, at 59% of enrollment; the rest looks like 17% multiracial, 10% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 7% Black. By comparison, Anoka County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.4:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 17% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Anoka County (around 42%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Elementary Lighthouse ranks in the top 10% of Minnesota public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 55.8%; Elementary Lighthouse posts 93.7%, +37.9 points above that line.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Anoka County put the typical household earns roughly $101,869 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Elementary Lighthouse is one of 145 public schools in Anoka County (combined enrollment of about 59,656 students).

The closest other public school is Secondary Lighthouse, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Elementary Lighthouse comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 46.3%.

Elementary Lighthouse operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 34%: 44 students in 2018 compared to 29 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 70% to 59% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 in 2025.

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