LYLE ELEMENTARY

LYLE ELEMENTARY is an one-room-style elementary school in LYLE, Minnesota, overseen by LYLE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school caters to 125 students in grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so LYLE ELEMENTARY sits 64% smaller than that benchmark.

Within LYLE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 3 schools and 306 students, LYLE ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

Demographically, LYLE ELEMENTARY reports that White students make up the majority at 79%. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, LYLE ELEMENTARY reports 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting LYLE ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 55% of students at LYLE ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, LYLE ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 28.3%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Mower County indicate the typical household earns roughly $73,074 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Mower County's 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,434 students), LYLE ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

Lyle Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LYLE ELEMENTARY ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 59.1%.

LYLE ELEMENTARY operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LYLE ELEMENTARY has shrank 27%, going from 171 students in 2018 to 125 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 9% to 16% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

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