Plainview-Elgin-Millville 4-6

Plainview-Elgin-Millville 4-6 is one of the low-enrollment intermediate schools in ELGIN, Minnesota, overseen by Plainview-Elgin-Millville, with 315 students on its rolls from grades 4 through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 36% below the state mean of about 495.

Plainview-Elgin-Millville 4-6 is one of 4 schools operated by Plainview-Elgin-Millville, a district that caters to 1,405 students overall.

On demographics, Plainview-Elgin-Millville 4-6 shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 2% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting Plainview-Elgin-Millville 4-6 tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 35% of students at Plainview-Elgin-Millville 4-6 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Plainview-Elgin-Millville 4-6 tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 46.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 49.9%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Wabasha County indicate median household earnings sit near $82,007, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Wabasha County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,408 students), Plainview-Elgin-Millville 4-6 is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Plainview-Elgin-Millville Junior, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Plainview-Elgin-Millville 4-6. On composite proficiency, Plainview-Elgin-Millville 4-6 comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 48.7%.

Plainview-Elgin-Millville 4-6 operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Plainview-Elgin-Millville 4-6's enrollment has decreased 9% since 2018, when it stood at 347 (now 315). The White share of enrollment declined from 91% to 87% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

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