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Enrollment
604
Elementary
DISTRICT 600 · STATE 344
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WAYZATA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 274216002248
GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY
310 COUNTY ROAD 101 N, PLYMOUTH, MN 55447 · (763) 745-5400 · Hennepin County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL604 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 96% of Minnesota public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Minnesota public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.5:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
19%
114 students
DISTRICT 23% · STATE 48%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 78 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 110 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 105 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 109 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 95 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 107 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (78) is 27% smaller than its 5th grade class (107).
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · STATE 60% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsEnglish Language Arts
75.7%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
79.3%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 79 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
Source: MCA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of MN schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
70.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.9%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 55% 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 16 points, placing it in Minnesota's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY
GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY's state test result (70.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY this school | 604 | 18.9% | 70.9% |
| MIDDLETON ELEMENTARY WOODBURY | 557 | 17.6% | 54.0% |
| Island Lake Elementary SHOREVIEW | 741 | 18.8% | 59.6% |
| GORDON BAILEY ELEMENTARY WOODBURY | 692 | 20.4% | 47.8% |
| Lincoln K-8 School ROCHESTER | 506 | 17.0% | 55.7% |
| OAKWOOD ELEMENTARY PLYMOUTH | 545 | 20.7% | 61.5% |
Matched among Minnesota elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In Hennepin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.9% | #31 of 844 | #19 of 169 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 79.3% | #38 of 844 | #19 of 169 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.7% | #24 of 844 | #18 of 169 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 604 | #160 of 1,130 | #44 of 206 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.6:1 | #597 of 769 | #120 of 164 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.6% | #336 of 796 | #106 of 165 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 18.9% | #842 of 942 | #150 of 183 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.5% | #147 of 244 | #28 of 50 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
604
+4 (+1%) vs 2020
-19% since 1990-91, when it was 747
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
was 13.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 604 | 38.8 | 15.6:1 | 19% (114) |
| 2023-24 | 589 | 36.4 | 16.2:1 | 18% (105) |
| 2022-23 | 563 | 38 | 14.8:1 | 20% (112) |
| 2020-21 | 600 | 46 | 13.0:1 | 13% (78) |
| 2017-18 | 567 | 39.4 | 14.4:1 | 19% (105) |
| 2015-16 | 622 | 37 | 16.8:1 | 17% (106) |
| 2010-11 | 692 | 40 | 17.3:1 | 17% (115) |
| 2000-01 | 727 | 34 | 21.4:1 | 3% (24) |
| 1990-91 | 747 | 35 | 21.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students up 7% (567 to 604); teachers down 2% (39.4 to 38.8).
About GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY
GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY is an elementary school in PLYMOUTH, Minnesota, reachable at (763) 745-5400. The student body numbers 604 students, from kindergarten through 5. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Minnesota) has about 344 students.
WAYZATA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT runs GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY along with 15 other schools, enrolling 12,951 students in total.
At GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY, White students make up 66% of the student body. It is also 12% Asian, 8% multiracial, 7% Black, and 6% Hispanic. For comparison, Hennepin County is about 66% White. GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY's diversity index is 54%, against a US figure of 70%.
The school reports 38.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 15.6 students per teacher. That is 1.9 students per teacher above the 13.7:1 average for elementary schools in Minnesota. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 19% of students. The gap from the 43% average for public schools in Hennepin County is 24 points.
The allk12 Grade for GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY is A+. Compared with Minnesota public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 96% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Test results at GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY are 16.0 points above what its student poverty level predicts. The average proficiency rate on state tests is 70.9%, compared with a predicted 54.9%, which ranks in the top 10% in Minnesota.
Census Bureau estimates for Hennepin County show that the median household income is $97,653, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY is one of 496 public schools in the county.
The school nearest to GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY is WAYZATA CENTRAL MIDDLE, at a distance of about 0.9 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY ranks 2nd of 7 on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY is City: Small, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 604, close to the 600 recorded in 2020-21. The number of students per teacher rose from 13.0 to 15.6 over 4 years.
Conversations here can range across school safety, transportation, and start times. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Hennepin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,269,496
Census ACS
Median income
$97,653
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
54%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
496
177,509 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in WAYZATA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
- WAYZATA HIGHHigh · 3,781 students
- WAYZATA CENTRAL MIDDLEMiddle · 1,342 students
- WAYZATA WEST MIDDLEMiddle · 836 students
- WAYZATA EAST MIDDLEMiddle · 817 students
- North Woods Elementary SchoolElementary · 775 students
- GREENWOOD ELEMENTARYElementary · 762 students
Other schools in PLYMOUTH
- WAYZATA HIGHHigh · 3,781 students
- ROBBINSDALE ARMSTRONG SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,840 students
- WAYZATA CENTRAL MIDDLEMiddle · 1,342 students
- WAYZATA EAST MIDDLEMiddle · 817 students
- North Woods Elementary SchoolElementary · 775 students
- GREENWOOD ELEMENTARYElementary · 762 students
Nearby schools
- WAYZATA CENTRAL MIDDLE0.9 mi · 1,342
- WAYZATA WEST MIDDLE1.0 mi · 836
- OAKWOOD ELEMENTARY1.0 mi · 545
- EARLY CHILDHOOD SPECIAL EDUCATION1.0 mi · 183
- BIRCHVIEW ELEMENTARY1.1 mi · 441
- School #5191.3 mi · 1
Frequently asked questions
About GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARYWhat is the total enrollment at GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY?
GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 604 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY serve?
GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY have?
GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY employs 39 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.6:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY?
At GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY, the student body is approximately 66% White, 6% Hispanic, 7% Black, 12% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY public or private?
GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY is a public K-12 school, overseen by WAYZATA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.