JONATHAN ELEMENTARY

JONATHAN ELEMENTARY is one of the high-enrollment elementary schools in CHASKA, Minnesota, one of the schools within EASTERN CARVER COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL, with 541 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so JONATHAN ELEMENTARY sits 57% bigger than that benchmark.

EASTERN CARVER COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 9,274 students; JONATHAN ELEMENTARY is among them.

Demographically, JONATHAN ELEMENTARY shows that White students make up the majority at 77%. Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Black, 3% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting JONATHAN ELEMENTARY higher than the state norm the norm. Around 20% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JONATHAN ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.3%, the actual is 61.3%, a residual of +7.0 points.

In the area at large, census data for Carver County shows median household earnings sit near $125,946, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. In all, Carver County runs 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,076 students), of which JONATHAN ELEMENTARY is one.

The closest other public school is Early Childhood Special Education, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, JONATHAN ELEMENTARY comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 49.8%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. JONATHAN ELEMENTARY's enrollment has decreased 10% since 2018, when it stood at 600 (now 541).

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