Kasson-Mantorville Elementary

As a high-enrollment elementary-level community in KASSON, Minnesota, Kasson-Mantorville Elementary teaches 796 students from grades pre-K through 4, run under Kasson-Mantorville School District. That puts it 131% bigger than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.

Kasson-Mantorville Elementary is one of 3 schools operated by Kasson-Mantorville School District, a district that caters to 2,152 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Kasson-Mantorville Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). The remainder breaks down as 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Kasson-Mantorville Elementary reports 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 24% of students at Kasson-Mantorville Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Kasson-Mantorville Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Minnesota public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 52.1%; Kasson-Mantorville Elementary posts 68.0%, +15.9 points above that line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Dodge County) records that the typical household earns roughly $95,739 per year, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Kasson-Mantorville Elementary is one of 13 public schools in Dodge County (combined enrollment of about 3,838 students).

Nearest neighbor: Kasson-Mantorville Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kasson-Mantorville Elementary. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kasson-Mantorville Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 59.0%.

Kasson-Mantorville Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kasson-Mantorville Elementary has ticked down 9%, going from 878 students in 2018 to 796 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 90% to 84%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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