Pre-K - 5th Grade Building

Set in CLINTON, Minnesota, Pre-K - 5th Grade Building is a small elementary campus, one of the schools within Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley. It instructs 152 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 344 students per school, that is 56% smaller than typical.

Across the 6 schools in Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley (333 students total), Pre-K - 5th Grade Building accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Pre-K - 5th Grade Building logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). Beyond that, the school lists 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Pre-K - 5th Grade Building has 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.7:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 37% of students at Pre-K - 5th Grade Building qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Pre-K - 5th Grade Building performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.3%, the actual is 48.8%, a residual of +3.5 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Big Stone County) records that the typical household earns roughly $70,400 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Pre-K - 5th Grade Building is one of 9 public schools in Big Stone County (combined enrollment of about 843 students).

Big Stone Colony Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Pre-K - 5th Grade Building. On composite proficiency, Pre-K - 5th Grade Building comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 49.2%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pre-K - 5th Grade Building has declined 5%, going from 160 students in 2018 to 152 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 96% to 89% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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