GREY CLOUD ELEMENTARY

GREY CLOUD ELEMENTARY operates as a high-enrollment elementary school in COTTAGE GROVE, Minnesota, one of the schools within South Washington County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 797 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 132% bigger than the state mean of about 344.

South Washington County Schools comprises 28 schools with combined enrollment of 19,578 students; GREY CLOUD ELEMENTARY is among them.

Looking at the student body, GREY CLOUD ELEMENTARY lists that 66% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 10% Asian, 10% Black, 7% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. By comparison, Washington County as a whole is about 78% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, GREY CLOUD ELEMENTARY has 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.8:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 16% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Washington County (around 26%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GREY CLOUD ELEMENTARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.2%; this one delivers 50.3%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Washington County put the typical household earns roughly $115,345 per year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. GREY CLOUD ELEMENTARY is one of 103 public schools in Washington County (combined enrollment of about 46,313 students).

Nearest neighbor: COTTAGE GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GREY CLOUD ELEMENTARY. On composite proficiency, GREY CLOUD ELEMENTARY comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 37.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GREY CLOUD ELEMENTARY has stayed largely flat, going from 791 students in 2018 to 797 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 77% to 66%.

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