GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY

GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY is an elementary campus of sizable scale in PLYMOUTH, Minnesota, one of the schools within WAYZATA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, enrolling 604 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 76% larger than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.

WAYZATA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 12,951 students. GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY lists that White students make up the majority at 66%; the rest breaks down as 12% Asian, 8% multiracial, 7% Black, 6% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY lists 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Roughly 19% of students at GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Hennepin County (around 43%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY 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 54.9%; GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY posts 70.9%, +16.0 points above that line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Hennepin County put median household earnings sit near $97,653, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Hennepin County runs 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), of which GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY is one.

WAYZATA CENTRAL MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 63.2%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY's enrollment has increased 7% since 2018, when it stood at 567 (now 604). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 73% to 66%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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