GREEN ISLE COMMUNITY SCHOOL

GREEN ISLE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is a very small elementary school serving families in GREEN ISLE, Minnesota. Enrollment stands at 40 students, covering kindergarten through 6. That puts enrollment 88% below the 344-student average for elementary schools in Minnesota.

GREEN ISLE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is not part of a larger district; federal data list it as its own local education agency.

GREEN ISLE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is 90% White by enrollment. Beyond that, enrollment is 5% Hispanic, 3% Asian, and 3% multiracial. That is in line with Sibley County, where about 88% of residents are White.

Its ratio of 11.2:1 is based on 4.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in Minnesota average 13.7:1, 2.5 more students per teacher than here. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 23%. For comparison, public schools in Sibley County average 41%.

In Sibley County, median household income comes to about $77,634, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 19% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. The county's public schools total 12, with about 2,034 students.

Of the public schools around it, GREEN ISLE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is closest to Sibley East Middle School, about 6.0 miles away. The count of other public schools within ten miles is at least 8.

The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Rural: Distant: in rural territory some distance from an urban area. The school is a charter school, funded with public money and operated under a charter agreement.

Over 6 years, enrollment decreased by 21 students, from 61 to 40. There were fewer students per teacher in 2023-24 (9.6:1) than in 2017-18 (17.6:1).

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