LAKE PARK AUDUBON ELEMENTARY

LAKE PARK AUDUBON ELEMENTARY is a close-knit elementary campus in AUDUBON, Minnesota, part of LAKE PARK AUDUBON SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school enrolls 275 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 344 students per school, that is 20% below typical.

LAKE PARK AUDUBON SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 663 students. LAKE PARK AUDUBON ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, LAKE PARK AUDUBON ELEMENTARY reports that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 8% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 4% Native American. That composition is broadly in line with Becker County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, LAKE PARK AUDUBON ELEMENTARY lists 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 7.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Around 41% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LAKE PARK AUDUBON ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.0%, the actual is 42.9%, a residual of -0.1 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Becker County indicate the typical household earns roughly $71,388 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. LAKE PARK AUDUBON ELEMENTARY is one of 22 public schools in Becker County (combined enrollment of about 4,637 students).

Nearest neighbor: Lake Park Audubon High School, around 5.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, LAKE PARK AUDUBON ELEMENTARY comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.4%.

LAKE PARK AUDUBON ELEMENTARY operates from an outlying location.

Looking at the recent track record. LAKE PARK AUDUBON ELEMENTARY's enrollment has contracted 28% since 2018, when it stood at 382 (now 275). Over the same period, the White share fell from 89% to 83%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 7.9:1 in 2025.

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