RENVILLE COUNTY WEST ELEMENTARY
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Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Minnesota's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About RENVILLE COUNTY WEST ELEMENTARY
Set in RENVILLE, Minnesota, RENVILLE COUNTY WEST ELEMENTARY is a mid-tier primary school, run under Renville County West Schools. It teaches 329 students across grades pre-K through 6.
Renville County West Schools comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 548 students; RENVILLE COUNTY WEST ELEMENTARY is among them.
Looking at the student body, RENVILLE COUNTY WEST ELEMENTARY logs that 59% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 40% Hispanic. By comparison, Renville County as a whole is about 87% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 46% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, RENVILLE COUNTY WEST ELEMENTARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.6%; this one delivers 31.9%.
Around the school, census data for Renville County shows median household income runs about $70,625, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Renville County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,806 students), of which RENVILLE COUNTY WEST ELEMENTARY is one.
Nearest neighbor: RENVILLE COUNTY WEST SENIOR HIGH, around 0.0 miles off. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts RENVILLE COUNTY WEST ELEMENTARY at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 38.3%.
Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 333 students in 2018 compared to 329 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 65% to 59% across the same window.
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