Orchard Lake Elementary

Orchard Lake Elementary is an elementary-level community of average-sized scale in LAKEVILLE, Minnesota, part of Lakeville Area Schools, instructing 390 students in grades K through 5.

Within Lakeville Area Schools, which oversees 21 schools and 12,025 students, Orchard Lake Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Orchard Lake Elementary shows that 61% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 14% Black, 11% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

Looking at school resources, Orchard Lake Elementary records 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 32% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Orchard Lake Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 47.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.9%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Dakota County indicate median household earnings sit near $106,318, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Dakota County's 170 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,687 students), Orchard Lake Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Lakeville Shared Time Services is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Orchard Lake Elementary.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Orchard Lake Elementary has edged down 9%, going from 430 students in 2018 to 390 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment grew from 4% to 14% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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