LILY LAKE ELEMENTARY

LILY LAKE ELEMENTARY operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in STILLWATER, Minnesota, one of the schools within Stillwater Area Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 398 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 16 schools in Stillwater Area Public Schools (8,455 students total), LILY LAKE ELEMENTARY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, LILY LAKE ELEMENTARY logs that 79% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder breaks down as 8% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 4% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Washington County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 27% 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, LILY LAKE ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.5%, the actual is 59.1%, a residual of +8.6 points.

In the area at large, Washington County reports that the typical household earns roughly $115,345 per year, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Washington County's 103 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,313 students), LILY LAKE ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: STILLWATER SPECIAL SERVICES-ECSE, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, LILY LAKE ELEMENTARY comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 55.4%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 17%: 478 students in 2018 compared to 398 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 85% to 79% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.