PRAIRIE ELEMENTARY

PRAIRIE ELEMENTARY, a substantial elementary campus in WORTHINGTON, Minnesota, run under WORTHINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosts 690 students, covering grades pre-K through 2. Enrollment runs roughly 101% bigger than the state mean of about 344.

WORTHINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 4,064 students. PRAIRIE ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

Demographically, PRAIRIE ELEMENTARY logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 70% of enrollment. Other groups include 12% White, 8% Asian, 6% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Nobles County as a whole is about 35% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Nobles County's rate of about 61%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Nobles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,101 per year, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Nobles County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,284 students), of which PRAIRIE ELEMENTARY is one.

The closest other public school is Intermediate School, roughly 1.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

PRAIRIE ELEMENTARY operates from a town-center location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 44%: 1,236 students in 2018 compared to 690 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 58% to 70% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.