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Enrollment
571
Elementary
DISTRICT 492 · STATE 344
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAKEVILLE AREA SCHOOLS·NCES 271778002985
OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY
8640 165TH ST W, LAKEVILLE, MN 55044 · (952) 232-2500 · Dakota County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL571 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 85% of Minnesota public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Minnesota public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.8:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
22%
125 students
DISTRICT 26% · STATE 48%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 80 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 94 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 105 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 112 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 105 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (80) is 24% smaller than its 5th grade class (105).
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 60% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsEnglish Language Arts
63.3%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
68.1%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
Source: MCA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
62.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.3%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Minnesota's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY
OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY's state test result (62.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY this school | 571 | 21.9% | 62.3% |
| EASTVIEW ELEMENTARY LAKEVILLE | 543 | 23.9% | 56.1% |
| THOMAS LAKE ELEMENTARY EAGAN | 575 | 21.4% | 59.9% |
| Bamber Valley Elementary School ROCHESTER | 599 | 21.0% | 56.0% |
| Pinewood Community Elementary EAGAN | 519 | 22.0% | 51.7% |
| LILA Lower School FOREST LAKE | 607 | 20.8% | 41.3% |
Matched among Minnesota elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In Dakota County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.3% | #107 of 844 | #5 of 60 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.1% | #144 of 844 | #9 of 60 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.3% | #132 of 844 | #12 of 60 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 571 | #198 of 1,130 | #27 of 73 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.2:1 | #565 of 769 | #46 of 58 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.7% | #323 of 796 | #40 of 59 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 21.9% | #803 of 942 | #54 of 66 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.0% | #376 of 499 | #30 of 36 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
571
+112 (+24%) vs 2020
+16% since 2000-01, when it was 492
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
was 13.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 571 | 37.5 | 15.2:1 | 22% (125) |
| 2023-24 | 680 | 48.7 | 14.0:1 | 27% (181) |
| 2022-23 | 658 | 45.7 | 14.4:1 | 25% (166) |
| 2020-21 | 459 | 34 | 13.5:1 | 13% (61) |
| 2017-18 | 614 | 38.8 | 15.8:1 | 21% (129) |
| 2015-16 | 605 | 35 | 17.3:1 | 21% (127) |
| 2010-11 | 418 | 26 | 16.1:1 | 9% (37) |
| 2000-01 | 492 | 23 | 21.4:1 | 0% (2) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (614 to 571); teachers down 3% (38.8 to 37.5).
About OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY
OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY runs as a large elementary school in LAKEVILLE, Minnesota. It had 571 students in 2024-25, spanning kindergarten through 5. Elementary schools in Minnesota have about 344 students on average; enrollment here is 66% higher.
Lakeville Area Schools oversees OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY and 20 other schools, with 12,025 students in total.
The student body at OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY is 65% White. Beyond that, enrollment is 14% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 8% multiracial, and 4% Black. The White share of the county population is higher, at 74%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 55%.
A staff of 37.5 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 15.2:1. Compared with the 13.7:1 average for elementary schools in Minnesota, this school's ratio is higher. By family income, 22% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Dakota County is 34%.
Among Minnesota public elementary schools, OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY outscored 85%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 62.3% is 9.0 points above the 53.3% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
The school is in Dakota County, where median household income comes to about $106,318, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Dakota County counts 170 public schools with about 74,687 students.
LAKEVILLE EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM, about 0.9 miles away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY places 1st of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Under the NCES locale system, OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY is Suburb: Large.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY had a net gain of 112 students, or 24%. The ratio of students to teachers went from 13.5:1 to 15.2:1 over the same years.
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Dakota County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
445,771
Census ACS
Median income
$106,318
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
170
74,687 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lakeville Area Schools
- LAKEVILLE NORTH HIGHHigh · 1,871 students
- LAKEVILLE SOUTH HIGHHigh · 1,816 students
- CENTURY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 950 students
- KENWOOD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 854 students
- MCGUIRE MIDDLEMiddle · 844 students
- LAKE MARION ELEMENTARYElementary · 727 students
Other schools in LAKEVILLE
- LAKEVILLE NORTH HIGHHigh · 1,871 students
- LAKEVILLE SOUTH HIGHHigh · 1,816 students
- CENTURY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 950 students
- KENWOOD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 854 students
- East Lake Elementary SchoolElementary · 844 students
- MCGUIRE MIDDLEMiddle · 844 students
Other Oak Hills Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 3 states are named Oak Hills Elementary. OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY is the 2nd largest of the 4.
- Oak Hills ElementaryValencia, CA · 660 students
- Oak Hills ElementaryOak Park, CA · 523 students
- Oak Hills Elementary SchoolBeaverton, OR · 484 students
Nearby schools
- LAKEVILLE EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM0.9 mi · 237
- CHERRY VIEW ELEMENTARY1.0 mi · 599
- SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY1.1 mi · 576
- Valley Middle School of STEM1.2 mi · 1,090
- HUDDLESTON ELEMENTARY1.3 mi · 430
- Cedar Park Elementary STEM School1.4 mi · 722
Frequently asked questions
About OAK HILLS ELEMENTARYHow large is OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY?
OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 571 students in grades KG-05.
Is OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY an elementary, middle, or high school?
OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY is approximately 15.2:1 (38 FTE teachers).
How diverse is OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY?
OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY reports a student body of 65% White, 14% Hispanic, 4% Black, 9% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY public or private?
OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY is a public K-12 school, overseen by Lakeville Area Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.