Monticello Nature Based Education
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Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 53% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 14 points, placing it in Minnesota's top 10%.
About Monticello Nature Based Education
Monticello Nature Based Education is an elementary campus of very small scale in MONTICELLO, Minnesota, overseen by Monticello Public School District, works with 65 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 344 students per school, that is 81% below typical.
Monticello Public School District runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 4,013 students. Monticello Nature Based Education is one of those campuses.
On demographics, Monticello Nature Based Education lists that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 5% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Wright County as a whole.
On the income-and-resources front, About 23% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Monticello Nature Based Education is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 52.7%; this one delivers 66.3%, a residual of +13.6 points.
In the area at large, Wright County reports that median household earnings sit near $107,209, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Wright County's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,879 students), Monticello Nature Based Education is one campus in the mix.
Pinewood Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Monticello Nature Based Education comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 51.5%.
Monticello Nature Based Education operates from a low-density location.
In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.
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