RED PINE ELEMENTARY

RED PINE ELEMENTARY operates as a high-enrollment K-5 school in EAGAN, Minnesota, run under ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN. Current enrollment sits at 740 students spanning grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 344 students per school, that is 115% larger than typical.

ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN runs 36 schools in total, collectively educating 29,224 students. RED PINE ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, RED PINE ELEMENTARY lists that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment. Other groups include 10% Black, 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 6% Asian.

On the resource side, On paper, RED PINE ELEMENTARY has 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Dakota County (around 34%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, RED PINE ELEMENTARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 54.0%; this one delivers 58.8%.

Around the school, Dakota County reports that the typical household earns roughly $106,318 per year, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. RED PINE ELEMENTARY is one of 170 public schools in Dakota County (combined enrollment of about 74,687 students).

Nearest neighbor: Pinewood Community Elementary, around 1.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), RED PINE ELEMENTARY ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 60.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 5%: 782 students in 2018 compared to 740 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 79% to 68% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 in 2025.

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