La Crescent-Hokah Elementary
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Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About La Crescent-Hokah Elementary
La Crescent-Hokah Elementary is a K-5 school of mid-tier scale in LA CRESCENT, Minnesota, part of La Crescent-Hokah School District, serveing 359 students in grades pre-K through 4.
La Crescent-Hokah School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 998 students. La Crescent-Hokah Elementary is one of those campuses.
Demographically, La Crescent-Hokah Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Beyond that, the school records 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Houston County as a whole.
Looking at school resources, La Crescent-Hokah Elementary lists 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.7:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Houston County (around 38%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, La Crescent-Hokah Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.9%; this one delivers 58.0%.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Houston County indicate median household income runs about $79,825, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. La Crescent-Hokah Elementary is one of 20 public schools in Houston County (combined enrollment of about 4,089 students).
La Crescent Montessori & STEM Acad 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. On composite proficiency, La Crescent-Hokah Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 44.7%.
La Crescent-Hokah Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.
Looking at the recent track record. La Crescent-Hokah Elementary's enrollment has declined 5% since 2018, when it stood at 376 (now 359).
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