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PARKVIEW ELEMENTARY
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About PARKVIEW ELEMENTARY
PARKVIEW ELEMENTARY operates as a sprawling K-5 school in ROSEMOUNT, Minnesota, one of the schools within ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN. Current enrollment sits at 674 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so PARKVIEW ELEMENTARY sits 96% larger than that benchmark.
ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN runs 36 schools in total, collectively educating 29,224 students. PARKVIEW ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.
Demographically, PARKVIEW ELEMENTARY shows that the largest single group is White at 55%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 18% Black, 11% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Dakota County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, PARKVIEW ELEMENTARY logs 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 40% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PARKVIEW ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.5%, the actual is 44.1%, a residual of +0.6 points.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Dakota County indicate median household earnings sit near $106,318, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. PARKVIEW ELEMENTARY is one of 170 public schools in Dakota County (combined enrollment of about 74,687 students).
The closest other public school is Cedar Park Elementary STEM School, roughly 1.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PARKVIEW ELEMENTARY comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 44.1%.
The school occupies a commuter-belt site.
Over the past 7-year window. PARKVIEW ELEMENTARY's enrollment has contracted 17% since 2018, when it stood at 816 (now 674). Black enrollment moved from 7% to 18% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.
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