Katherine Johnson Education Center

Set in SAINT CLOUD, Minnesota, Katherine Johnson Education Center is a sprawling combined-grade school, one of the schools within ST. CLOUD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. It works with 79 students across grades K through 12. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 50 students each, so Katherine Johnson Education Center sits 58% bigger than that benchmark.

ST. CLOUD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 22 schools with combined enrollment of 9,803 students; Katherine Johnson Education Center is among them.

Demographically, Katherine Johnson Education Center shows that the most-represented group is White (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 32% Black, 22% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. By comparison, Stearns County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Katherine Johnson Education Center has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 3.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 6.4:1 average. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Stearns County's rate of about 44%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Stearns County) records that the typical household earns roughly $77,066 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Stearns County's 74 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,160 students), Katherine Johnson Education Center is one campus in the mix.

St. Cloud Area Learning Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Katherine Johnson Education Center typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.