North Woods Elementary School

Set in PLYMOUTH, Minnesota, North Woods Elementary School is a heavily attended elementary-level community, one of the schools within WAYZATA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. It instructs 775 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 125% bigger than the state mean of about 344.

Within WAYZATA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 16 schools and 12,951 students, North Woods Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, North Woods Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White, at 61% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 26% Asian, 6% multiracial, 4% Black, 3% Hispanic.

On the resource side, On paper, North Woods Elementary School has 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Around 6% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Hennepin County's rate of about 43%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, North Woods Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 62.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 74.6%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Hennepin County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Hennepin County runs 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), of which North Woods Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Wayzata Transition School, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), North Woods Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 69.3%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

On the community side, the feed for North Woods Elementary School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.