Pinewood Elementary School

Pinewood Elementary School is an elementary campus of mid-tier scale in ROCHESTER, Minnesota, part of Rochester Public School District, instructing 380 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 44 schools in Rochester Public School District (17,171 students total), Pinewood Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Pinewood Elementary School reports that the most-represented group is White (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 23% Hispanic, 14% Black, 10% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 77% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Around 45% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Olmsted County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Pinewood Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Minnesota public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 40.9%; Pinewood Elementary School posts 27.8%, -13.1 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Olmsted County indicate median household income runs about $95,406, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Pinewood Elementary School is one of 72 public schools in Olmsted County (combined enrollment of about 24,627 students).

Nearest neighbor: RPS Online Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Pinewood Elementary School comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 16%: 327 students in 2018 compared to 380 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 9% to 23%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.