OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY

OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY operates as a large primary school in LAKEVILLE, Minnesota, part of Lakeville Area Schools. Current enrollment sits at 571 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 66% larger than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.

Lakeville Area Schools comprises 21 schools with combined enrollment of 12,025 students; OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY is among them.

Looking at the student body, OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY records that the largest single group is White, at 65% of enrollment. Other groups include 14% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 8% multiracial, 4% Black. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Roughly 22% of students at OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Dakota County (around 34%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.3%, the actual is 62.3%, a residual of +9.0 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Dakota County put the typical household earns roughly $106,318 per year, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Dakota County runs 170 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,687 students), of which OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY is one.

Nearest neighbor: LAKEVILLE EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 48.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY's enrollment has shrank 7% since 2018, when it stood at 614 (now 571).

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