MILACA ELEMENTARY

MILACA ELEMENTARY is a primary school of large scale in MILACA, Minnesota, operated by MILACA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosting 865 students in grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so MILACA ELEMENTARY sits 151% above that benchmark.

MILACA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,639 students; MILACA ELEMENTARY is among them.

On demographics, MILACA ELEMENTARY logs that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Mille Lacs County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting MILACA ELEMENTARY higher than the state norm the norm. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MILACA ELEMENTARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.2%; this one delivers 39.9%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Mille Lacs County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $72,729 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Mille Lacs County's 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,100 students), MILACA ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is MILACA AREA LEARNING CENTER, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around MILACA ELEMENTARY. On composite proficiency, MILACA ELEMENTARY comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 36.7%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. MILACA ELEMENTARY's enrollment has contracted 11% since 2018, when it stood at 967 (now 865). Class-load math has rose: from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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