GLACIAL HILLS ELEMENTARY

As an one-room-style elementary-level community in STARBUCK, Minnesota, GLACIAL HILLS ELEMENTARY serves 97 students from grades pre-K through 6, run under GLACIAL HILLS ELEMENTARY. That puts it 72% smaller than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.

Operationally, GLACIAL HILLS ELEMENTARY answers to GLACIAL HILLS ELEMENTARY, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Looking at the student body, GLACIAL HILLS ELEMENTARY reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. About 52% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Pope County (around 31%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GLACIAL HILLS ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.4%, the actual is 48.7%, a residual of +11.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Pope County) records that the typical household earns roughly $76,220 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. GLACIAL HILLS ELEMENTARY is one of 8 public schools in Pope County (combined enrollment of about 1,421 students).

Minnewaska Area WIN Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GLACIAL HILLS ELEMENTARY ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 54.6%.

The school occupies a small-town site. GLACIAL HILLS ELEMENTARY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GLACIAL HILLS ELEMENTARY has decreased 5%, going from 102 students in 2018 to 97 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 91% to 87% over that span.

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