Kaleidoscope Charter Elementary Sch

Kaleidoscope Charter Elementary Sch is one of the medium-sized elementary schools in OTSEGO, Minnesota, overseen by KALEIDOSCOPE CHARTER SCHOOL, with 300 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

KALEIDOSCOPE CHARTER SCHOOL comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 493 students; Kaleidoscope Charter Elementary Sch is among them.

On demographics, Kaleidoscope Charter Elementary Sch shows that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. Other groups include 10% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 7% Black, 2% Asian. By comparison, Wright County as a whole is about 89% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Kaleidoscope Charter Elementary Sch has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Kaleidoscope Charter Elementary Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 35% of students at Kaleidoscope Charter Elementary Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Wright County (around 24%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Kaleidoscope Charter Elementary Sch falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 46.3%; this one comes in at 31.4%, -14.9 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Wright County indicate median household income runs about $107,209, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Wright County's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,879 students), Kaleidoscope Charter Elementary Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Kaleidoscope Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kaleidoscope Charter Elementary Sch. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kaleidoscope Charter Elementary Sch ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 52.1%.

The school occupies a low-density site. Kaleidoscope Charter Elementary Sch operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 23%: 388 students in 2018 compared to 300 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 92% to 73% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 in 2025.

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