Enrollment
277
Elementary
DISTRICT 349 · STATE 344
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DULUTH PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 271104000476
LAURA MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY
720 N CENTRAL AVE, DULUTH, MN 55807 · (218) 336-8900 · St. Louis County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL277 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
8.4:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
70%
193 students
DISTRICT 54% · 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 | 22 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 35 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 43 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 44 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 50 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 41 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 42 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (35) is 17% smaller than its 5th grade class (42).
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 40% · 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
33.8%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
23.7%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
26.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
27.6%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 28% 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%.
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 LAURA MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY
LAURA MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY's state test result (26.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAURA MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY this school | 277 | 69.7% | 26.2% |
| STOWE ELEMENTARY DULUTH | 245 | 69.0% | 25.6% |
| KING ELEMENTARY DEER RIVER | 390 | 67.9% | 55.3% |
| HINCKLEY ELEMENTARY HINCKLEY | 395 | 63.3% | 34.9% |
| KELLIHER ELEMENTARY KELLIHER | 168 | 68.5% | 33.3% |
| Vaughan-Steffensrud Elementary CHISHOLM | 207 | 64.7% | 44.4% |
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 LAURA MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In St. Louis County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 26.2% | #706 of 844 | #24 of 26 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.7% | #733 of 844 | #25 of 26 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.8% | #666 of 844 | #24 of 26 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 277 | #675 of 1,130 | #22 of 36 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.4:1 | #13 of 769 | #2 of 29 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.4% | #329 of 796 | #2 of 29 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.7% | #161 of 942 | #2 of 30 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -38.9% | #25 of 499 | #2 of 19 |
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
277
-34 (-11%) vs 2020
-66% since 1990-91, when it was 813
Student : Teacher
8.4:1
was 10.4:1
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 | 277 | 32.8 | 8.4:1 | 70% (193) |
| 2023-24 | 308 | 34.7 | 8.9:1 | 78% (241) |
| 2022-23 | 320 | 33.8 | 9.5:1 | 76% (243) |
| 2020-21 | 311 | 30 | 10.4:1 | 62% (194) |
| 2017-18 | 453 | 27.9 | 16.3:1 | 79% (356) |
| 2015-16 | 428 | 30 | 14.3:1 | 74% (317) |
| 2010-11 | 458 | 34 | 13.5:1 | 74% (340) |
| 2000-01 | 510 | 36 | 14.2:1 | 62% (318) |
| 1990-91 | 813 | 36 | 22.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LAURA MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students down 39% (453 to 277); teachers up 18% (27.9 to 32.8).
About LAURA MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY
LAURA MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY is classified as an elementary school. It is located in DULUTH, Minnesota. The school teaches pre-K through 5 and enrolls 277 students.
Across its 31 schools, DULUTH PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT enrolls 8,994 students. LAURA MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY is one of those schools.
The largest group at LAURA MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY is White students, at 65%. Other groups make up 16% multiracial, 9% Black, 8% Native American, and 3% Hispanic. County-wide, 90% of St. Louis County residents are White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 54%.
LAURA MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY reports a ratio of 8.4 students per teacher, from 32.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. The gap from the 13.7:1 average for elementary schools in Minnesota is 5.2 students per teacher. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at LAURA MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY, 70% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 30 points above the 40% average for public schools in St. Louis County.
LAURA MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 26.2% is 1.4 points below the 27.6% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Census data for St. Louis County show median household income comes to about $70,069, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 34%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. There are 100 public schools in the county, enrolling about 23,921, LAURA MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY among them.
LAURA MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY is about 0.5 miles from ALC SWS Denfeld, its nearest public school. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. On proficiency, LAURA MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY is behind the 40.7% nearby average, ranking 6th of 6.
The NCES locale for LAURA MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY is City: Small, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Federal enrollment counts decreased from 311 (2020-21) to 277 (2024-25). Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 8.4:1, from 10.4:1.
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St. Louis County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
200,123
Census ACS
Median income
$70,069
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
100
23,921 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in DULUTH PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
- East High SchoolHigh · 1,495 students
- ORDEAN EAST MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,037 students
- DENFELD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 951 students
- LINCOLN PARK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 606 students
- LESTER PARK ELEMENTARYElementary · 510 students
- CONGDON ELEMENTARYElementary · 474 students
Other schools in DULUTH
- East High SchoolHigh · 1,495 students
- ORDEAN EAST MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,037 students
- DENFELD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 951 students
- LINCOLN PARK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 606 students
- NORTH STAR ACADEMYElementary · 572 students
- Bay View ElementaryElementary · 529 students
Nearby schools
- ALC SWS Denfeld0.5 mi · 57
- DENFELD HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 951
- RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY0.9 mi · 208
- MERRITT CREEK ACADEMY1.1 mi · 75
- ALC SWS Lincoln Park1.5 mi · 65
- LINCOLN PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL1.5 mi · 606
Frequently asked questions
About LAURA MACARTHUR ELEMENTARYHow large is LAURA MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY?
LAURA MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 277 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does LAURA MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY serve?
LAURA MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does LAURA MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY have?
LAURA MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY employs 33 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.4:1.
What is the student diversity at LAURA MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY?
Student demographics at LAURA MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY are roughly 65% White, 3% Hispanic, 9% Black, 0% Asian, 16% Two or more.
Is LAURA MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY public or private?
LAURA MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY is a public K-12 school, overseen by DULUTH PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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