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Enrollment
510
Elementary
DISTRICT 272 · STATE 344
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OWATONNA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 272805001226
MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY
1050 22ND ST. NE, OWATONNA, MN 55060 · (507) 444-8200 · Steele County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL510 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 30% of Minnesota public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Minnesota public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.8:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
246 students
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 48%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 80 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 59 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 96 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 96 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 74 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 105 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (80) is 24% smaller than its 5th grade class (105).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 60% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsEnglish Language Arts
43.7%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
43.0%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
Source: MCA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
38.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.1%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY
MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY's state test result (38.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY this school | 510 | 48.2% | 38.2% |
| NORMANDALE HILLS ELEMENTARY BLOOMINGTON | 440 | 48.4% | 41.8% |
| Pinewood Elementary School ROCHESTER | 380 | 45.0% | 27.8% |
| PETER HOBART ELEMENTARY SAINT LOUIS PARK | 435 | 43.9% | 44.4% |
| LINCOLN ELEMENTARY ELK RIVER | 554 | 45.7% | 52.6% |
| Robert Asp Elementary MOORHEAD | 580 | 53.1% | 38.2% |
Matched among Minnesota elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In Steele County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.2% | #566 of 844 | #6 of 7 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #532 of 844 | #6 of 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.7% | #519 of 844 | #5 of 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 510 | #282 of 1,130 | #1 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #314 of 769 | #5 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.3% | #293 of 796 | #2 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.2% | #355 of 942 | #3 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.3% | #198 of 499 | #2 of 6 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
510
-16 (-3%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 664
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 11.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 510 | 38.8 | 13.1:1 | 48% (246) |
| 2023-24 | 483 | 35.8 | 13.5:1 | 45% (217) |
| 2022-23 | 525 | 36.4 | 14.4:1 | 50% (262) |
| 2020-21 | 526 | 47 | 11.2:1 | 46% (243) |
| 2017-18 | 609 | 41.3 | 14.7:1 | 53% (324) |
| 2015-16 | 594 | 36 | 16.5:1 | 52% (311) |
| 2010-11 | 483 | 30 | 16.1:1 | 45% (219) |
| 2000-01 | 580 | 31 | 18.7:1 | 23% (135) |
| 1990-91 | 664 | 34 | 19.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (609 to 510); teachers down 6% (41.3 to 38.8).
About MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY
MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY is a mid-sized elementary school in OWATONNA, Minnesota. It teaches 510 students in kindergarten through 5. By comparison, elementary schools in Minnesota enroll about 344 students on average.
MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY is in OWATONNA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district with 4,890 students across 13 schools.
At MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY, 59% of students are White. The school is also 19% Hispanic, 17% Black, and 3% multiracial. That is lower than the 86% White share among all Steele County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 58%.
The school has 38.8 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 13.1 students per teacher. It is about the same as the 13.7:1 average for elementary schools in Minnesota. Federal data show 48% of students (246) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 30% of Minnesota public elementary schools.
The model predicts 39.1% for a school in Minnesota with MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY's free or reduced-price lunch share. MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY posts 38.2%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Steele County show that the median household earns about $84,196 a year, roughly 28% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Steele County counts 24 public schools with about 6,997 students.
Owatonna Middle School sits about 0.7 miles from MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY. MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY has at least 8 other public schools within five miles.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Town: Distant, meaning it is in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 510, from 526 in 2020-21. The number of students per teacher increased from 11.2 to 13.1 over 4 years.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Steele County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
37,439
Census ACS
Median income
$84,196
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
24
6,997 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in OWATONNA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
- OWATONNA SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,468 students
- Owatonna Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,015 students
- LINCOLN ELEMENTARYElementary · 505 students
- WASHINGTON ELEMENTARYElementary · 468 students
- WILSON ELEMENTARYElementary · 454 students
- Owatonna Online 9-12High · 136 students
Other schools in OWATONNA
- OWATONNA SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,468 students
- Owatonna Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,015 students
- LINCOLN ELEMENTARYElementary · 505 students
- WASHINGTON ELEMENTARYElementary · 468 students
- WILSON ELEMENTARYElementary · 454 students
- Owatonna Online 9-12High · 136 students
Other Mckinley Elementary schools
55 other US public schools in 19 states are named Mckinley Elementary. MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY is the 12th largest of the 56.
- McKinley ElementaryHAM LAKE, MN · 636 students
- McKinley ElementaryFERGUS FALLS, MN · 249 students
- McKinley Elementary SchoolNEWARK, NJ · 917 students
- McKinley ElementaryStockton, CA · 705 students
- McKinley ElementaryFresno, CA · 671 students
Nearby schools
- Owatonna Middle School0.7 mi · 1,015
- WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY0.9 mi · 468
- OWATONNA ECSE1.8 mi · 87
- Owatonna Online 9-121.8 mi · 136
- Owatonna Online K-61.8 mi · 14
- Owatonna Online 7-81.8 mi · 22
Frequently asked questions
About MCKINLEY ELEMENTARYHow large is MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY?
MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 510 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY serve?
MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY?
Approximately 13.1:1 students per teacher at MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY.
How diverse is MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY?
MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY reports a student body of 59% White, 19% Hispanic, 17% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY?
MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY is overseen by OWATONNA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT in Steele County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.