North Lakes Academy Elementary

North Lakes Academy Elementary is one of the low-enrollment primary schools in FOREST LAKE, Minnesota, overseen by NORTH LAKES ACADEMY, with 220 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 36% below the state mean of about 344.

Across the 3 schools in NORTH LAKES ACADEMY (613 students total), North Lakes Academy Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, North Lakes Academy Elementary shows that nearly all students (82%) are White. The remainder consists of 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian, 2% Native American.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, North Lakes Academy Elementary has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 46% of students at North Lakes Academy Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Washington County (around 26%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, North Lakes Academy Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.1%, the actual is 38.6%, a residual of -1.6 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Washington County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $115,345 per year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Washington County runs 103 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,313 students), of which North Lakes Academy Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is North Lakes Academy Middle School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a rural site. North Lakes Academy Elementary is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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