PINE BEND ELEMENTARY

PINE BEND ELEMENTARY operates as a mid-tier elementary-level community in INVER GROVE HEIGHTS, Minnesota, part of INVER GROVE HEIGHTS SCHOOLS. Current enrollment sits at 511 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so PINE BEND ELEMENTARY sits 49% bigger than that benchmark.

Within INVER GROVE HEIGHTS SCHOOLS, which oversees 8 schools and 3,427 students, PINE BEND ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

On demographics, PINE BEND ELEMENTARY reports that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 31% Hispanic, 9% Black, 7% multiracial, 5% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 48% of students at PINE BEND ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Dakota County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PINE BEND ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.3%.

In the broader community, census data for Dakota County shows median household earnings sit near $106,318, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Dakota County's 170 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,687 students), PINE BEND ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

INVER GROVE HEIGHTS MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PINE BEND ELEMENTARY at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 29.6%.

PINE BEND ELEMENTARY operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. PINE BEND ELEMENTARY's enrollment has shrank 10% since 2018, when it stood at 567 (now 511). The White share of enrollment edged down from 55% to 47% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

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