JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY

JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY, a low-enrollment elementary-level community in MANKATO, Minnesota, run under MANKATO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, caters to 191 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 44% leaner than the state mean of about 344.

Within MANKATO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 22 schools and 8,219 students, JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY records that the largest single group is White, at 69% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 14% Black, 9% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 2% Asian. By comparison, Blue Earth County as a whole is about 85% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Roughly 42% of students at JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.5%; this one delivers 52.9%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Blue Earth County) records that median household earnings sit near $74,477, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Blue Earth County runs 31 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,034 students), of which JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY is one.

Nearest neighbor: CENTRAL FREEDOM SCHOOL, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 45.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Looking at the recent track record. JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY's enrollment has edged down 21% since 2018, when it stood at 243 (now 191). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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