Otter Lake Elementary

Located at 1401 COUNTY ROAD H2, in WHITE BEAR LAKE, Minnesota, Otter Lake Elementary is an average-sized primary school that instructs 492 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by White Bear Lake School District. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so Otter Lake Elementary sits 43% larger than that benchmark.

White Bear Lake School District comprises 17 schools with combined enrollment of 8,571 students; Otter Lake Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Otter Lake Elementary logs that 75% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 8% multiracial, 8% Asian, 6% Hispanic, 3% Black. By comparison, Ramsey County as a whole is about 59% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Otter Lake Elementary has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 21% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Ramsey County's rate of about 57%.

After controlling for student poverty, Otter Lake Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.0%, the actual is 57.9%, a residual of +3.9 points.

In the surrounding community, Ramsey County reports that median household earnings sit near $81,568, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Ramsey County runs 302 public schools (combined enrollment of about 94,437 students), of which Otter Lake Elementary is one.

Lincoln Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Otter Lake Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Otter Lake Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 46.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Otter Lake Elementary has edged down 19%, going from 609 students in 2018 to 492 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 80% to 75% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

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