MEADOWVIEW ELEMENTARY

MEADOWVIEW ELEMENTARY, a roomy K-5 school in FARMINGTON, Minnesota, part of FARMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, teaches 600 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 74% above the state mean of about 344.

FARMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 6,458 students. MEADOWVIEW ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, MEADOWVIEW ELEMENTARY reports that 60% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder reads as 22% Hispanic, 7% Black, 7% Asian, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Dakota County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. About 32% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MEADOWVIEW ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 47.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.6%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Dakota County put median household earnings sit near $106,318, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Dakota County runs 170 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,687 students), of which MEADOWVIEW ELEMENTARY is one.

Nearest neighbor: AKIN ROAD ELEMENTARY, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MEADOWVIEW ELEMENTARY. On composite proficiency, MEADOWVIEW ELEMENTARY comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 43.6%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MEADOWVIEW ELEMENTARY has declined 16%, going from 716 students in 2018 to 600 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 79% to 60% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

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