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RICHFIELD DUAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL
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Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 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 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 RICHFIELD DUAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL
RICHFIELD DUAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL is one of the big elementary schools in RICHFIELD, Minnesota, overseen by RICHFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 529 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 54% larger than the state mean of about 344.
Within RICHFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 10 schools and 4,094 students, RICHFIELD DUAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
For racial and ethnic makeup, RICHFIELD DUAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 70% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 22% White, 3% multiracial, 3% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 8%.
Looking at school resources, The school reports having 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting RICHFIELD DUAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 46% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
After controlling for student poverty, RICHFIELD DUAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.5%; this one delivers 39.2%.
Zooming out to the county, Hennepin County reports that median household earnings sit near $97,653, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. RICHFIELD DUAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL is one of 496 public schools in Hennepin County (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students).
Nearest neighbor: RICHFIELD STEM SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RICHFIELD DUAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), RICHFIELD DUAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 25.2%.
The school occupies a bedroom-community site.
Looking at the recent track record. RICHFIELD DUAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL's enrollment has edged up 17% since 2018, when it stood at 451 (now 529). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.
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