PRAIRIE WOODS ELEMENTARY

PRAIRIE WOODS ELEMENTARY is a primary school of big scale in NEW LONDON, Minnesota, part of NEW LONDON-SPICER SCHOOL DISTRICT, serveing 578 students in grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 68% above the state mean of about 344.

Across the 5 schools in NEW LONDON-SPICER SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,518 students total), PRAIRIE WOODS ELEMENTARY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, PRAIRIE WOODS ELEMENTARY logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%); the rest comes out to 10% Hispanic. By comparison, Kandiyohi County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 28% of students at PRAIRIE WOODS ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Kandiyohi County's rate of about 54%.

After controlling for student poverty, PRAIRIE WOODS ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 60.1%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Kandiyohi County) shows that median household earnings sit near $76,592, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Kandiyohi County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,213 students), of which PRAIRIE WOODS ELEMENTARY is one.

SWWC ELC - New London is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PRAIRIE WOODS ELEMENTARY ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 37.1%.

PRAIRIE WOODS ELEMENTARY operates from a town-based location.

Trend over the last 7 years. PRAIRIE WOODS ELEMENTARY's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 582 (now 578). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 92% to 88%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.

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