Lowell Elementary Spanish Immersion
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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%.
About Lowell Elementary Spanish Immersion
Lowell Elementary Spanish Immersion, a moderately sized primary school in DULUTH, Minnesota, operated by DULUTH PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, educates 329 students, covering grades K through 5.
DULUTH PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 31 schools with combined enrollment of 8,994 students; Lowell Elementary Spanish Immersion is among them.
On demographics, Lowell Elementary Spanish Immersion lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%); the rest is composed of 12% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 90%.
Looking at school resources, The school lists 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. An estimated 14% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of St. Louis County's rate of about 40%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lowell Elementary Spanish Immersion tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 57.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 56.3%.
In the surrounding community, census data for St. Louis County shows median household income runs about $70,069, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across St. Louis County's 100 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,921 students), Lowell Elementary Spanish Immersion is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Lowell Elementary, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lowell Elementary Spanish Immersion. On composite proficiency, Lowell Elementary Spanish Immersion comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 34.1%.
The school occupies a high-density site.
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