Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton Elem

As an average-sized elementary-level community in JANESVILLE, Minnesota, Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton Elem educates 317 students from grades pre-K through 6, part of JANESVILLE-WALDORF-PEMBERTON.

Within JANESVILLE-WALDORF-PEMBERTON, which oversees 2 schools and 629 students, Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton Elem is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton Elem reports that nearly all students (91%) are White. Other groups include 4% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. Compared to Waseca County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. An estimated 25% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Waseca County (around 41%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton Elem sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.7%; this one delivers 59.7%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Waseca County indicate median household earnings sit near $76,261, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton Elem is one of 13 public schools in Waseca County (combined enrollment of about 2,915 students).

JANESVILLE-WALDORF-PEMBERTON SEC is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton Elem comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 47.3%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton Elem has edged down 9%, going from 350 students in 2018 to 317 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 95% to 91% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.

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