RAVEN STREAM ELEMENTARY

Located at 300 11TH AVE NW, in NEW PRAGUE, Minnesota, RAVEN STREAM ELEMENTARY is a big elementary campus that works with 542 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within NEW PRAGUE AREA SCHOOLS. Compared to the state average of about 344 students per school, that is 58% above typical.

NEW PRAGUE AREA SCHOOLS runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 3,980 students. RAVEN STREAM ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, RAVEN STREAM ELEMENTARY reports that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder breaks down as 4% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Scott County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, RAVEN STREAM ELEMENTARY has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.6:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, RAVEN STREAM ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.9%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Scott County) records that the typical household earns roughly $119,314 per year, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Scott County runs 66 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,041 students), of which RAVEN STREAM ELEMENTARY is one.

The closest other public school is CENTRAL EDUCATION CAMPUS, roughly 1.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around RAVEN STREAM ELEMENTARY. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), RAVEN STREAM ELEMENTARY ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 44.7%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Looking at the recent track record. RAVEN STREAM ELEMENTARY's enrollment has edged down 19% since 2018, when it stood at 670 (now 542). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.

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