Lismore Colony Elementary

Lismore Colony Elementary, a micro-enrollment elementary campus in CLINTON, Minnesota, run under Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley, hosts 24 students, covering grades K through 8. That puts it 93% below the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.

Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 333 students. Lismore Colony Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lismore Colony Elementary logs that 100% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority.

On the resource side, The school reports having 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Big Stone County's rate of about 38%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Big Stone County shows the typical household earns roughly $70,400 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Big Stone County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 843 students), of which Lismore Colony Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Lismore Colony Senior High School, around 0.0 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

Lismore Colony Elementary operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 33%: 36 students in 2018 compared to 24 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 today.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.