Enrollment
191
Elementary
DISTRICT 322 · STATE 344
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MANKATO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 271878000876
JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY
100 JAMES AVE, MANKATO, MN 56001 · (507) 388-5480 · Blue Earth County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL191 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 72% of Minnesota public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Minnesota public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.7:1
16 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
42%
80 students
DISTRICT 45% · STATE 48%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 35 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 22 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 34 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 36 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 34 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 30 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (35) is 17% larger than its 5th grade class (30).
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 60% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsEnglish Language Arts
57.7%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
58.8%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
Source: MCA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
52.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.5%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Minnesota's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY
JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY's state test result (52.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY this school | 191 | 41.9% | 52.9% |
| Schoolcraft Learning Community BEMIDJI | 192 | 38.0% | 39.8% |
| Mankato Schools Center for Learning MANKATO | 165 | 46.7% | N/A |
| GOODVIEW ELEMENTARY WINONA | 209 | 45.9% | 49.2% |
| Sawtooth Mountain Elementary GRAND MARAIS | 203 | 44.8% | 28.9% |
| Level Up Academy WHITE BEAR LAKE | 145 | 40.7% | 26.5% |
Matched among Minnesota elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In Blue Earth County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.9% | #276 of 844 | #8 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.8% | #295 of 844 | #9 of 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.7% | #241 of 844 | #7 of 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 191 | #805 of 1,130 | #10 of 13 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 41.9% | #456 of 942 | #5 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.4% | #139 of 499 | #4 of 8 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
191
-37 (-16%) vs 2020
-41% since 1990-91, when it was 326
Student : Teacher
11.7:1
was 14.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 191 | 16.4 | 11.7:1 | 42% (80) |
| 2023-24 | 187 | 14.8 | 12.6:1 | 41% (76) |
| 2022-23 | 204 | 16.6 | 12.3:1 | 40% (82) |
| 2020-21 | 228 | 16 | 14.3:1 | 28% (64) |
| 2017-18 | 243 | 18.1 | 13.4:1 | 40% (96) |
| 2015-16 | 244 | 18 | 13.6:1 | 50% (123) |
| 2010-11 | 250 | 15 | 16.7:1 | 37% (93) |
| 2000-01 | 235 | 13 | 18.1:1 | 19% (45) |
| 1990-91 | 326 | 18 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students down 21% (243 to 191); teachers down 9% (18.1 to 16.4).
About JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY
JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY is a small elementary school located in MANKATO, Minnesota. The student body numbers 191 students, from kindergarten through 5. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Minnesota) has about 344 students.
MANKATO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT includes 22 schools. Together they enroll 8,219 students.
JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY is 69% White by enrollment. The remaining students are 14% Black, 9% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, and 2% Asian. Among people living in Blue Earth County, the White share is about 85%. JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY's diversity index is 49%, against a US figure of 70%.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.7:1 at JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY, with 16.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. This ratio sits 2.0 below the 13.7:1 average for elementary schools in Minnesota. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 42%.
allk12 grades JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY a B+. The grade compares the school only with Minnesota public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
A school with JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY's lunch-eligibility share in Minnesota is predicted to score 42.5%. JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY scores 52.9%, 10.3 points above that line.
According to the American Community Survey, in Blue Earth County, the median household income is $74,477, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY is one of 31 public schools in the county.
Nearest public school: Central High Area Learning Center, about 0.3 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY is 4th of 5 nearby schools with test data.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Small: inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Federal data show a 16% enrollment decrease, from 228 in 2020-21 to 191 in 2024-25. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 14.3:1 to 11.7:1.
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Blue Earth County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
69,871
Census ACS
Median income
$74,477
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
31
9,034 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MANKATO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
- MANKATO EAST SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,302 students
- MANKATO WEST SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,232 students
- Prairie Winds Middle SchoolMiddle · 887 students
- Dakota Meadows Middle SchoolMiddle · 852 students
- HOOVER ELEMENTARYElementary · 461 students
- Rosa Parks ElementaryElementary · 425 students
Other schools in MANKATO
- MANKATO EAST SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,302 students
- MANKATO WEST SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,232 students
- Prairie Winds Middle SchoolMiddle · 887 students
- Rosa Parks ElementaryElementary · 425 students
- FRANKLIN ELEMENTARYElementary · 388 students
- WASHINGTON ELEMENTARYElementary · 376 students
Other Jefferson Elementary schools
143 other US public schools in 31 states are named Jefferson Elementary. JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY is the 137th largest of the 144.
- Jefferson ElementaryBLAINE, MN · 650 students
- JEFFERSON ELEMENTARYNEW ULM, MN · 643 students
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolROCHESTER, MN · 464 students
- JEFFERSON ELEMENTARYFARIBAULT, MN · 389 students
- JEFFERSON ELEMENTARYWINONA, MN · 322 students
Nearby schools
- Central High Area Learning Center0.3 mi · 79
- CENTRAL FREEDOM SCHOOL0.3 mi · 1
- MANKATO WEST SENIOR HIGH0.7 mi · 1,232
- ROOSEVELT ELEMENTARY0.8 mi · 302
- SPECIAL EDUCATION0.8 mi · 233
- Kato Public Charter School0.9 mi · 77
Frequently asked questions
About JEFFERSON ELEMENTARYHow large is JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY?
JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 191 students in grades KG-05.
Is JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY an elementary, middle, or high school?
JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY have?
JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY employs 16 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.7:1.
What is the student diversity at JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY?
Student demographics at JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY are roughly 69% White, 5% Hispanic, 14% Black, 2% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY public or private?
JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY is a public K-12 school, overseen by MANKATO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.