MONROE ELEMENTARY

MONROE ELEMENTARY, a reasonably sized elementary campus in NORTH MANKATO, Minnesota, part of MANKATO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, serves 367 students, covering grades K through 5.

MANKATO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 22 schools in total, collectively educating 8,219 students. MONROE ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, MONROE ELEMENTARY logs that the largest single group is White, at 71% of enrollment; the rest looks like 11% Hispanic, 9% Black, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Nicollet County as a whole is about 87% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 42% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Nicollet County's rate of about 34%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MONROE ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.7%, the actual is 50.5%, a residual of +7.8 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Nicollet County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $79,756 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Nicollet County's 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,447 students), MONROE ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is BRIDGES COMMUNITY ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MONROE ELEMENTARY. On composite proficiency, MONROE ELEMENTARY comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 49.6%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 28%: 508 students in 2018 compared to 367 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 84% to 71% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.

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