Jeffers Pond Elementary

Located at 14800 JEFFERS PASS NW, in PRIOR LAKE, Minnesota, Jeffers Pond Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school that enrolls 487 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so Jeffers Pond Elementary sits 42% above that benchmark.

Within Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools, which oversees 14 schools and 8,788 students, Jeffers Pond Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Jeffers Pond Elementary records that 76% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 9% multiracial, 6% Asian, 5% Hispanic, 2% Native American. That composition is broadly in line with Scott County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Jeffers Pond Elementary records 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Jeffers Pond Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 11% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Scott County (around 28%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Jeffers Pond Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.3%, the actual is 60.8%, a residual of +1.4 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Scott County put median household earnings sit near $119,314, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Across Scott County's 66 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,041 students), Jeffers Pond Elementary is one campus in the mix.

SWMetro Passageways is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jeffers Pond Elementary. On composite proficiency, Jeffers Pond Elementary comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 55.0%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 19%: 601 students in 2018 compared to 487 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 83% to 76%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 today.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Jeffers Pond Elementary typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.