Elton Hills Elementary School

Elton Hills Elementary School operates as a mid-sized K-5 school in ROCHESTER, Minnesota, operated by Rochester Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 308 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Rochester Public School District runs 44 schools in total, collectively educating 17,171 students. Elton Hills Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Elton Hills Elementary School shows that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 19% Black, 12% multiracial, 12% Hispanic, 6% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

On the resource side, Roughly 58% of students at Elton Hills Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Olmsted County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Elton Hills Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.4%.

In the broader community, census data for Olmsted County shows the typical household earns roughly $95,406 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Olmsted County's 72 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,627 students), Elton Hills Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

John Adams Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Elton Hills Elementary School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 33.3%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 40%: 517 students in 2018 compared to 308 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment declined from 13% to 6% over that span.

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