Lino Lakes Elementary

Lino Lakes Elementary operates as a medium-sized K-5 school in LINO LAKES, Minnesota, part of Forest Lake Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 501 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 46% larger than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.

Lino Lakes Elementary is one of 14 schools operated by Forest Lake Public School District, a district that teaches 5,776 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lino Lakes Elementary lists that 63% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 11% Asian, 10% multiracial, 10% Black, 6% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 75% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Lino Lakes Elementary reports 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Lino Lakes Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 32% of students at Lino Lakes Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Anoka County (around 42%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lino Lakes Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.8%, the actual is 46.5%, a residual of -1.3 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Anoka County) shows that median household earnings sit near $101,869, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Anoka County runs 145 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,656 students), of which Lino Lakes Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Pines School - RJC, around 1.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lino Lakes Elementary. On composite proficiency, Lino Lakes Elementary comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 58.3%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 498 students in 2018 compared to 501 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 76% to 63%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 in 2025.

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