Great Oaks Academy - Grammar

Great Oaks Academy - Grammar, a reasonably sized primary school in FARMINGTON, Minnesota, operated by Great Oaks Academy Charter School, educates 430 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 25% above the state mean of about 344.

Great Oaks Academy Charter School comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 531 students; Great Oaks Academy - Grammar is among them.

In terms of who attends, Great Oaks Academy - Grammar logs that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest is composed of 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 3% Black. By comparison, Dakota County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. An estimated 18% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Dakota County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Great Oaks Academy - Grammar tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 55.4%.

In the broader community, census data for Dakota County shows median household earnings sit near $106,318, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Great Oaks Academy - Grammar is one of 170 public schools in Dakota County (combined enrollment of about 74,687 students).

Nearest neighbor: LEVI P. DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Great Oaks Academy - Grammar. On composite proficiency, Great Oaks Academy - Grammar comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 39.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area. Great Oaks Academy - Grammar is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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