Enrollment
122
Elementary
DISTRICT 104 · STATE 344
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LANCASTER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 271788000821
LANCASTER ELEMENTARY
401 CENTRAL AVE S, LANCASTER, MN 56735 · (218) 762-5400 · Kittson County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY43-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL122 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 68% of Minnesota public elementary schools
- B-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
14.8:1
8 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
64%
78 students
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 48%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 2 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 17 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 19 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 11 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 16 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 24 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 18 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 15 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (17) is 13% larger than its 6th grade class (15).
Student demographics
15%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 16% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
LANCASTER ELEMENTARY→LANCASTER SECONDARY
Based on grade levels within LANCASTER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsEnglish Language Arts
47.7%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
51.6%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 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
46.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.7%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 31% 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 16 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 LANCASTER ELEMENTARY
LANCASTER ELEMENTARY's state test result (46.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANCASTER ELEMENTARY this school | 122 | 63.9% | 46.3% |
| KNIGHT ELEMENTARY RANDALL | 119 | 61.3% | 34.4% |
| Hill City Elementary HILL CITY | 112 | 62.5% | 51.4% |
| BABBITT ELEMENTARY BABBITT | 95 | 62.1% | 31.8% |
| Discovery Woods BRAINERD | 101 | 64.4% | 31.8% |
| BIGFORK ELEMENTARY BIGFORK | 139 | 61.2% | 47.1% |
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 LANCASTER ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.3% | #410 of 844 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.6% | #414 of 844 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.7% | #439 of 844 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 122 | #903 of 1,130 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.9% | #198 of 942 |
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
122
+7 (+6%) vs 2020
+24% since 1990-91, when it was 98
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
was 14.4:1
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 | 122 | 8.2 | 14.8:1 | 64% (78) |
| 2023-24 | 121 | 9.2 | 13.1:1 | 63% (76) |
| 2022-23 | 105 | 7.6 | 13.8:1 | 60% (63) |
| 2020-21 | 115 | 8 | 14.4:1 | 28% (32) |
| 2017-18 | 102 | 7.6 | 13.4:1 | 40% (41) |
| 2015-16 | 84 | 9 | 9.3:1 | 30% (25) |
| 2010-11 | 83 | 9 | 9.2:1 | 55% (46) |
| 2000-01 | 126 | 9 | 14.0:1 | 53% (67) |
| 1990-91 | 98 | 9 | 10.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LANCASTER ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students up 20% (102 to 122); teachers up 8% (7.6 to 8.2).
About LANCASTER ELEMENTARY
LANCASTER ELEMENTARY serves students in LANCASTER, Minnesota, as a very small elementary school. It has an enrollment of 122 students in pre-K through 6. That compares with an average of about 344 students for elementary schools in Minnesota.
LANCASTER ELEMENTARY is part of LANCASTER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, where 2 schools serve 208 students.
The share of students at LANCASTER ELEMENTARY who are White is 92%. The remaining students are 6% Hispanic. Kittson County residents are about 93% White, a similar share. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 15%.
The school's 8.2 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.8:1. Elementary schools in Minnesota average 13.7:1, 1.1 fewer students per teacher than here. Income data for the school show 64% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 44% average for public schools in Kittson County.
LANCASTER ELEMENTARY holds a B+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 68% of Minnesota public elementary schools.
Schools in Minnesota with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to post an average proficiency rate across its state test results near 30.7%. LANCASTER ELEMENTARY posts 46.3%, 15.6 points above that, which places it in the top 10% statewide on BeatsExpectations.
For Kittson County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $76,100, about 29% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. There are 6 public schools in the county, enrolling about 634, LANCASTER ELEMENTARY among them.
LANCASTER SECONDARY sits less than a tenth of a mile from LANCASTER ELEMENTARY. Around the school, 3 other public schools are within ten miles. LANCASTER ELEMENTARY places 3rd of 6 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
In the federal locale system, LANCASTER ELEMENTARY is coded Rural: Remote, for schools in rural territory far from an urban area.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 122, compared with 115 in 2020-21.
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Kittson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
4,084
Census ACS
Median income
$76,100
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
6
634 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LANCASTER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
- LANCASTER SECONDARYHigh · 86 students
Other Lancaster Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 7 states are named Lancaster Elementary. LANCASTER ELEMENTARY is the 7th largest of the 7.
- LANCASTER ELEMENTARYORLANDO, FL · 646 students
- Lancaster ElementaryKilmarnock, VA · 542 students
- Lancaster Elementary SchoolEL PASO, TX · 517 students
- Lancaster Elementary SchoolLancaster, KY · 462 students
- Lancaster ElementaryMilwaukee, WI · 316 students
Nearby schools
- LANCASTER SECONDARY0.0 mi · 86
- KITTSON CENTRAL ELEMENTARY8.4 mi · 139
- KITTSON CENTRAL SECONDARY8.4 mi · 108
- NORTH BORDER-PEMBINA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL21.7 mi · 109
- NORTH BORDER-PEMBINA HIGH SCHOOL21.7 mi · 36
- KARLSTAD ELEMENTARY23.3 mi · 96
Frequently asked questions
About LANCASTER ELEMENTARYHow many students attend LANCASTER ELEMENTARY?
LANCASTER ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 122 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does LANCASTER ELEMENTARY serve?
LANCASTER ELEMENTARY serves grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at LANCASTER ELEMENTARY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at LANCASTER ELEMENTARY is approximately 14.8:1 (8 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at LANCASTER ELEMENTARY?
Student demographics at LANCASTER ELEMENTARY are roughly 92% White, 6% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Two or more.
What district is LANCASTER ELEMENTARY in?
LANCASTER ELEMENTARY is part of LANCASTER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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