MENDOTA ELEMENTARY

MENDOTA ELEMENTARY operates as a reasonably sized elementary school in MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minnesota, overseen by West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan. Current enrollment sits at 358 students spanning grades pre-K through 4.

West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 5,452 students; MENDOTA ELEMENTARY is among them.

On the student-mix side, MENDOTA ELEMENTARY logs that White students make up the majority at 72%. Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 8% Black, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school reports having 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting MENDOTA ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 25% of students at MENDOTA ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Dakota County (around 34%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, MENDOTA ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 61.5%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Dakota County put median household income runs about $106,318, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Dakota County runs 170 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,687 students), of which MENDOTA ELEMENTARY is one.

Nearest neighbor: Aspen House Education Program, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MENDOTA ELEMENTARY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MENDOTA ELEMENTARY at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 52.9%.

MENDOTA ELEMENTARY operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MENDOTA ELEMENTARY has shrank 16%, going from 427 students in 2018 to 358 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

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