KNIGHT ELEMENTARY

KNIGHT ELEMENTARY, a very small elementary school in RANDALL, Minnesota, part of Little Falls Community Schools, instructs 119 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 65% leaner than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.

Within Little Falls Community Schools, which oversees 6 schools and 2,424 students, KNIGHT ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

On demographics, KNIGHT ELEMENTARY lists that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Morrison County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, KNIGHT ELEMENTARY reports 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Around 61% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Morrison County's rate of about 35%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), KNIGHT ELEMENTARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.1%; this one delivers 34.4%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Morrison County indicate median household earnings sit near $69,446, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Morrison County runs 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,330 students), of which KNIGHT ELEMENTARY is one.

The closest other public school is LINCOLN ELEMENTARY, roughly 9.7 miles away.

KNIGHT ELEMENTARY operates from a countryside location.

Five-year trend. KNIGHT ELEMENTARY's enrollment has expanded 6% since 2018, when it stood at 112 (now 119). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 1% to 5%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.