MACCRAY Elementary

MACCRAY Elementary is a K-5 school of reasonably sized scale in CLARA CITY, Minnesota, one of the schools within MACCRAY School District, teacheing 320 students in grades pre-K through 5.

MACCRAY School District runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 722 students. MACCRAY Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MACCRAY Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%). Beyond that, the school records 16% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. About 46% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, MACCRAY Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 40.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.6%.

Around the school, Chippewa County reports that median household income runs about $71,458, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. MACCRAY Elementary is one of 11 public schools in Chippewa County (combined enrollment of about 2,194 students).

The closest other public school is MACCRAY Secondary, roughly 0.0 miles away. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MACCRAY Elementary at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 35.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

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