MABEL-CANTON ELEMENTARY

MABEL-CANTON ELEMENTARY is a close-knit elementary campus in MABEL, Minnesota, one of the schools within Mabel-Canton Public School District. The school hosts 143 students in grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 58% smaller than the state mean of about 344.

Mabel-Canton Public School District runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 269 students. MABEL-CANTON ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

Demographically, MABEL-CANTON ELEMENTARY logs that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 4% multiracial. Compared to Fillmore County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 24% of students at MABEL-CANTON ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Fillmore County (around 32%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MABEL-CANTON ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.9%, the actual is 60.2%, a residual of +8.3 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Fillmore County) records that the typical household earns roughly $77,512 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. MABEL-CANTON ELEMENTARY is one of 15 public schools in Fillmore County (combined enrollment of about 2,946 students).

MABEL-CANTON SECONDARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MABEL-CANTON ELEMENTARY ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 57.1%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. MABEL-CANTON ELEMENTARY's enrollment has expanded 8% since 2018, when it stood at 132 (now 143). Class-load math has rose: from 10.0:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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