Redtail Ridge Elementary School

As an expansive elementary-level community in SAVAGE, Minnesota, Redtail Ridge Elementary School teaches 556 students from grades K through 5, run under Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools. That puts it 62% larger than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.

Within Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools, which oversees 14 schools and 8,788 students, Redtail Ridge Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Redtail Ridge Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). Other groups include 7% multiracial, 4% Black, 3% Asian, 3% Hispanic.

Looking at school resources, Redtail Ridge Elementary School shows 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. About 11% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Scott County runs at roughly 28%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Redtail Ridge Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.4%, the actual is 56.5%, a residual of -2.9 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Scott County) reports that median household earnings sit near $119,314, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Redtail Ridge Elementary School is one of 66 public schools in Scott County (combined enrollment of about 26,041 students).

Prior Lake High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Redtail Ridge Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 50.0%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Redtail Ridge Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 26% since 2018, when it stood at 753 (now 556).

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