KENYON-WANAMINGO ELEMENTARY
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Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Minnesota's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About KENYON-WANAMINGO ELEMENTARY
KENYON-WANAMINGO ELEMENTARY, an intimate primary school in WANAMINGO, Minnesota, overseen by KENYON-WANAMINGO SCHOOL DISTRICT, instructs 198 students, covering grades pre-K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 344 students per school, that is 42% leaner than typical.
Across the 3 schools in KENYON-WANAMINGO SCHOOL DISTRICT (644 students total), KENYON-WANAMINGO ELEMENTARY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, KENYON-WANAMINGO ELEMENTARY shows that nearly all students (86%) are White. The remainder comes out to 11% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Goodhue County as a whole.
On the resource side, The school reports having 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Roughly 31% of students at KENYON-WANAMINGO ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
With demographic context factored in, KENYON-WANAMINGO ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.2%, the actual is 51.2%, a residual of +3.0 points.
In the surrounding community, census data for Goodhue County shows median household earnings sit near $84,171, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Goodhue County runs 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,099 students), of which KENYON-WANAMINGO ELEMENTARY is one.
The closest other public school is Zumbrota-Mazeppa Primary School, roughly 5.7 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 6 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, KENYON-WANAMINGO ELEMENTARY comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 46.5%.
KENYON-WANAMINGO ELEMENTARY operates from a small-town location.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 30%: 283 students in 2018 compared to 198 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 7% to 11% across the same window.
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