GREENWOOD ELEMENTARY

Set in PLYMOUTH, Minnesota, GREENWOOD ELEMENTARY is a high-enrollment primary school, operated by WAYZATA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. It works with 762 students across grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 344 students per school, that is 122% bigger than typical.

Across the 16 schools in WAYZATA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT (12,951 students total), GREENWOOD ELEMENTARY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, GREENWOOD ELEMENTARY lists that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. Other groups include 20% Asian, 6% Black, 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Hennepin County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, GREENWOOD ELEMENTARY reports 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.3:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 10% of students at GREENWOOD ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Hennepin County's rate of about 43%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GREENWOOD ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.6%, the actual is 65.3%, a residual of +5.8 points.

In the broader community, census data for Hennepin County shows the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Hennepin County's 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), GREENWOOD ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

KIMBERLY LANE ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GREENWOOD ELEMENTARY. On composite proficiency, GREENWOOD ELEMENTARY comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 71.2%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. GREENWOOD ELEMENTARY's enrollment has fell 4% since 2018, when it stood at 793 (now 762). The Asian share of enrollment edged down from 26% to 20% over that span.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.