ORONO INTERMEDIATE ELEMENTARY

As a substantial elementary-level community in LONG LAKE, Minnesota, ORONO INTERMEDIATE ELEMENTARY works with 663 students from grades 3 through 5, part of ORONO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. That puts it 93% above the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.

ORONO INTERMEDIATE ELEMENTARY is one of 6 schools operated by ORONO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that enrolls 2,987 students overall.

On demographics, ORONO INTERMEDIATE ELEMENTARY logs that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 7% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting ORONO INTERMEDIATE ELEMENTARY higher than the state norm the norm. Around 9% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Hennepin County's rate of about 43%.

With demographic context factored in, ORONO INTERMEDIATE ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 60.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 70.5%.

Zooming out to the county, Hennepin County reports that median household earnings sit near $97,653, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Hennepin County runs 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), of which ORONO INTERMEDIATE ELEMENTARY is one.

The closest other public school is SCHUMANN ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ORONO INTERMEDIATE ELEMENTARY comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 68.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Trend over the last 7 years. ORONO INTERMEDIATE ELEMENTARY's enrollment has expanded 7% since 2018, when it stood at 618 (now 663).

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