MINNEOTA ELEMENTARY

MINNEOTA ELEMENTARY, a low-enrollment elementary school in MINNEOTA, Minnesota, one of the schools within MINNEOTA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, works with 258 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 344 students per school, that is 25% leaner than typical.

MINNEOTA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 554 students; MINNEOTA ELEMENTARY is among them.

Demographically, MINNEOTA ELEMENTARY reports that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 27% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Lyon County's rate of about 47%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MINNEOTA ELEMENTARY sits in the top 10% of Minnesota schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 50.7%; actual is 65.5%, +14.8 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Lyon County put median household income runs about $75,303, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Lyon County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,803 students), of which MINNEOTA ELEMENTARY is one.

MINNEOTA SECONDARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MINNEOTA ELEMENTARY ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 40.6%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 6%: 244 students in 2018 compared to 258 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 10.1:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 in 2025.

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