OAK HILL COMMUNITY ELEMENTARY

Set in SAINT CLOUD, Minnesota, OAK HILL COMMUNITY ELEMENTARY is a sprawling elementary school, operated by ST. CLOUD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. It teaches 878 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so OAK HILL COMMUNITY ELEMENTARY sits 155% above that benchmark.

Within ST. CLOUD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 22 schools and 9,803 students, OAK HILL COMMUNITY ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, OAK HILL COMMUNITY ELEMENTARY records that Black students make up the majority at 55%. The remainder looks like 30% White, 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 9% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, OAK HILL COMMUNITY ELEMENTARY has 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 66% 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 north of Stearns County's rate of about 44%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), OAK HILL COMMUNITY ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 29.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.6%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Stearns County indicate median household income runs about $77,066, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Stearns County runs 74 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,160 students), of which OAK HILL COMMUNITY ELEMENTARY is one.

Nearest neighbor: Athlos Academy of Saint Cloud, around 1.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around OAK HILL COMMUNITY ELEMENTARY. On composite proficiency, OAK HILL COMMUNITY ELEMENTARY comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 22.9%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. OAK HILL COMMUNITY ELEMENTARY's enrollment has grew 18% since 2018, when it stood at 743 (now 878). Over the same period, the Black share expanded from 37% to 55%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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