New Heights Elementary School

As a rural-scale K-5 school in STILLWATER, Minnesota, New Heights Elementary School serves 39 students from grades K through 5, operated by NEW HEIGHTS SCHOOL INC.. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so New Heights Elementary School sits 89% below that benchmark.

New Heights Elementary School is one of 2 schools operated by NEW HEIGHTS SCHOOL INC., a district that caters to 109 students overall.

On the student-mix side, New Heights Elementary School shows that nearly all students (87%) are White; the rest looks like 10% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 78%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting New Heights Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 54% of students at New Heights Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Washington County (around 26%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Washington County indicate the typical household earns roughly $115,345 per year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Washington County runs 103 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,313 students), of which New Heights Elementary School is one.

NEW HEIGHTS SCHOOL INC. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area. New Heights Elementary School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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