LUVERNE ELEMENTARY

LUVERNE ELEMENTARY is a moderately sized elementary-level community in LUVERNE, Minnesota, overseen by LUVERNE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school teaches 515 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so LUVERNE ELEMENTARY sits 50% above that benchmark.

Within LUVERNE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 4 schools and 1,142 students, LUVERNE ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, LUVERNE ELEMENTARY logs that 79% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Rock County as a whole is about 93% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, LUVERNE ELEMENTARY logs 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, LUVERNE ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 45.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 56.3%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Rock County) records that median household earnings sit near $71,295, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Rock County runs 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,485 students), of which LUVERNE ELEMENTARY is one.

LUVERNE ALTERNATIVE PROGRAM is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around LUVERNE ELEMENTARY. On composite proficiency, LUVERNE ELEMENTARY comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 49.9%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 10%: 573 students in 2018 compared to 515 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 84% to 79%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 in 2025.

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