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FIELDSTONE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 52% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 14 points, placing it in Minnesota's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About FIELDSTONE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
FIELDSTONE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a sizable K-5 school in SAINT MICHAEL, Minnesota, one of the schools within St. Michael-Albertville Schools. The school enrolls 585 students in grades 1 through 4. That puts it 70% bigger than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.
FIELDSTONE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 11 schools operated by St. Michael-Albertville Schools, a district that educates 6,795 students overall.
On demographics, FIELDSTONE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 76% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 11% Black, 7% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 89% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.
On the resource side, The school employs 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.5:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 24% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), FIELDSTONE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the top 10% of Minnesota schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 52.0%; actual is 65.8%, +13.7 points clear of the demographic baseline.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Wright County put the typical household earns roughly $107,209 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Wright County runs 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,879 students), of which FIELDSTONE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
ST. MICHAEL-ALBERTVILLE SENIOR HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FIELDSTONE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts FIELDSTONE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 1st of 4; the average score across the group is 55.9%.
FIELDSTONE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a small-town location.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 8%: 638 students in 2018 compared to 585 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 86% to 76% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.
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