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What's the most underrated thing about KIMBERLY LANE ELEMENTARY that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
534
Elementary
DISTRICT 600 · STATE 344
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WAYZATA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 274216002307
KIMBERLY LANE ELEMENTARY
17405 OLD ROCKFORD RD, PLYMOUTH, MN 55446 · (763) 745-5600 · Hennepin County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL534 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 94% of Minnesota public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Minnesota public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.5:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
14%
75 students
DISTRICT 23% · STATE 48%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 78 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 81 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 89 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 91 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 91 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 104 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (78) is 25% smaller than its 5th grade class (104).
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · STATE 60% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsEnglish Language Arts
76.3%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
80.1%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
Source: MCA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of MN schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
70.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.5%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 58% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 13 points, placing it in Minnesota's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like KIMBERLY LANE ELEMENTARY
KIMBERLY LANE ELEMENTARY's state test result (70.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIMBERLY LANE ELEMENTARY this school | 534 | 14.0% | 70.8% |
| PLYMOUTH CREEK ELEMENTARY PLYMOUTH | 678 | 11.4% | 72.8% |
| Meadow Ridge Elementary School PLYMOUTH | 762 | 12.5% | 71.9% |
| Valley Crossing Elementary WOODBURY | 734 | 12.5% | 73.0% |
| YINGHUA ACADEMY MINNEAPOLIS | 851 | 16.6% | 72.2% |
| Highview Elementary School LAKEVILLE | 658 | 11.6% | 56.5% |
Matched among Minnesota elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where KIMBERLY LANE ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In Hennepin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.8% | #32 of 844 | #20 of 169 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.1% | #31 of 844 | #18 of 169 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 76.3% | #19 of 844 | #16 of 169 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 534 | #243 of 1,130 | #59 of 206 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #553 of 769 | #108 of 164 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.2% | #165 of 796 | #59 of 165 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 14.0% | #900 of 942 | #163 of 183 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.6% | #67 of 499 | #21 of 99 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
534
-37 (-6%) vs 2020
-21% since 2000-01, when it was 674
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
was 15.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 534 | 35.4 | 15.1:1 | 14% (75) |
| 2023-24 | 531 | 29.1 | 18.2:1 | 11% (61) |
| 2022-23 | 527 | 32 | 16.4:1 | 9% (45) |
| 2020-21 | 571 | 38 | 15.0:1 | 5% (27) |
| 2017-18 | 759 | 45.2 | 16.8:1 | 3% (25) |
| 2015-16 | 718 | 42 | 17.1:1 | 5% (35) |
| 2010-11 | 807 | 40 | 20.2:1 | 3% (25) |
| 2000-01 | 674 | 35 | 19.3:1 | 1% (7) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for KIMBERLY LANE ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students down 30% (759 to 534); teachers down 22% (45.2 to 35.4).
About KIMBERLY LANE ELEMENTARY
KIMBERLY LANE ELEMENTARY is a public elementary school run by WAYZATA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT in PLYMOUTH, Minnesota. It had 534 students in 2024-25, spanning kindergarten through 5. By comparison, elementary schools in Minnesota enroll about 344 students on average.
District-wide, WAYZATA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT has 16 schools and 12,951 students.
The student body at KIMBERLY LANE ELEMENTARY has no majority group. White students lead at 47%. Next come 28% Asian, 10% multiracial, 10% Black, and 5% Hispanic. That compares with about 66% White among all Hennepin County residents. A diversity index of 68% means there is a 68% chance two randomly chosen students at KIMBERLY LANE ELEMENTARY are from different groups.
Its ratio of 15.1:1 is based on 35.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in Minnesota have an average ratio of 13.7:1. In all, 14% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is lower than the 43% average for public schools in Hennepin County.
KIMBERLY LANE ELEMENTARY earns an A on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 94% of Minnesota public elementary schools.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results, 70.8%, is 13.3 points above the 57.5% the model predicts from its free or reduced-price lunch share. That result is in the top 10% of Minnesota schools.
In the surrounding county, Hennepin County, the median household earns about $97,653 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 54%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Counting KIMBERLY LANE ELEMENTARY, Hennepin County has 496 public schools.
GREENWOOD ELEMENTARY is about 0.8 miles away, making it the nearest public school. KIMBERLY LANE ELEMENTARY is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. KIMBERLY LANE ELEMENTARY ranks 5th of 7 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 70.8% against a local average of 70.4%.
Locale data from NCES put KIMBERLY LANE ELEMENTARY inside a principal city with a population under 100,000 (City: Small).
The school shrank from 571 students in 2020-21 to 534 in 2024-25.
The allk12 page for KIMBERLY LANE ELEMENTARY lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Hennepin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,269,496
Census ACS
Median income
$97,653
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
54%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
496
177,509 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in WAYZATA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
- WAYZATA HIGHHigh · 3,781 students
- WAYZATA CENTRAL MIDDLEMiddle · 1,342 students
- WAYZATA WEST MIDDLEMiddle · 836 students
- WAYZATA EAST MIDDLEMiddle · 817 students
- North Woods Elementary SchoolElementary · 775 students
- GREENWOOD ELEMENTARYElementary · 762 students
Other schools in PLYMOUTH
- WAYZATA HIGHHigh · 3,781 students
- ROBBINSDALE ARMSTRONG SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,840 students
- WAYZATA CENTRAL MIDDLEMiddle · 1,342 students
- WAYZATA EAST MIDDLEMiddle · 817 students
- North Woods Elementary SchoolElementary · 775 students
- GREENWOOD ELEMENTARYElementary · 762 students
Nearby schools
- GREENWOOD ELEMENTARY0.8 mi · 762
- WAYZATA HIGH0.9 mi · 3,781
- THE ALTERNATIVE PROGRAM (TAP)0.9 mi · 142
- PLYMOUTH CREEK ELEMENTARY0.9 mi · 678
- Wayzata Transition School1.2 mi · 37
- North Woods Elementary School1.6 mi · 775
Frequently asked questions
About KIMBERLY LANE ELEMENTARYWhat is the total enrollment at KIMBERLY LANE ELEMENTARY?
KIMBERLY LANE ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 534 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does KIMBERLY LANE ELEMENTARY serve?
KIMBERLY LANE ELEMENTARY serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at KIMBERLY LANE ELEMENTARY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at KIMBERLY LANE ELEMENTARY is approximately 15.1:1 (35 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at KIMBERLY LANE ELEMENTARY?
At KIMBERLY LANE ELEMENTARY, the student body is approximately 47% White, 5% Hispanic, 10% Black, 28% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Who oversees KIMBERLY LANE ELEMENTARY?
KIMBERLY LANE ELEMENTARY is overseen by WAYZATA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT in Hennepin County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.