Kaposia Education Center Elementary

Kaposia Education Center Elementary is a heavily attended elementary-level community in SOUTH SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, part of South St. Paul Public School Dist. The school instructs 620 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 80% bigger than the state mean of about 344.

Within South St. Paul Public School Dist, which oversees 7 schools and 2,861 students, Kaposia Education Center Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Kaposia Education Center Elementary shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 37% White, 10% multiracial, 8% Black, 5% Asian. By comparison, Dakota County as a whole is about 9% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Around 70% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Dakota County's rate of about 34%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Kaposia Education Center Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 27.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.0%.

In the surrounding community, Dakota County reports that the typical household earns roughly $106,318 per year, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Dakota County's 170 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,687 students), Kaposia Education Center Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is IGH EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM, roughly 1.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kaposia Education Center Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 29.2%.

Kaposia Education Center Elementary operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Kaposia Education Center Elementary's enrollment has contracted 23% since 2018, when it stood at 810 (now 620). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 49% to 37%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

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