Prairie Care Mankato

Prairie Care Mankato is a very small school serving multiple grade levels serving families in MANKATO, Minnesota. The school serves kindergarten through 12. Enrollment is 18 students. It has 64% fewer students than the average for combined schools in Minnesota (about 50).

MANKATO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT (22 schools, 8,219 students) runs Prairie Care Mankato.

The share of White students at Prairie Care Mankato is 56%, a majority. Smaller groups are 33% Hispanic, 6% Black, and 6% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Blue Earth County is roughly 85% White.

Prairie Care Mankato reported 1 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 18.0:1. The school's 18.0:1 compares with an average of 6.4:1 for combined schools in Minnesota. Roughly 50% of students at Prairie Care Mankato can receive free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 37% average for public schools in Blue Earth County is 13 points.

In Blue Earth County, home to about 69,871 people, the median household earns about $74,477 a year, roughly 34% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Prairie Care Mankato shares Blue Earth County with 30 other public schools.

Prairie Care Mankato is about 0.2 miles from SPECIAL EDUCATION, its nearest public school. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

In the federal locale system, Prairie Care Mankato is coded City: Small, for schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.

Federal counts for Prairie Care Mankato: 11 students in 2020-21, 18 in 2024-25. A gap this wide can follow a change in the grades offered. The number of students per teacher increased from 5.5 to 18.0 over 4 years.

The allk12 page for Prairie Care Mankato lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.