ROGERS ELEMENTARY

Located at 12521 MAIN STREET, in ROGERS, Minnesota, ROGERS ELEMENTARY is a sprawling elementary-level community that hosts 693 students (grades K through 4), overseen by Elk River Public School District. Enrollment runs roughly 101% bigger than the state mean of about 344.

ROGERS ELEMENTARY is one of 29 schools operated by Elk River Public School District, a district that works with 14,633 students overall.

On demographics, ROGERS ELEMENTARY shows that White students make up the majority at 74%. Other groups include 10% Black, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian, 4% Hispanic.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, ROGERS ELEMENTARY has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Roughly 15% of students at ROGERS ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Hennepin County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, ROGERS ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.2%, the actual is 69.7%, a residual of +12.5 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Hennepin County indicate median household earnings sit near $97,653, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hennepin County's 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), ROGERS ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 1.9 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ROGERS ELEMENTARY comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 56.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. ROGERS ELEMENTARY's enrollment has climbed 5% since 2018, when it stood at 657 (now 693). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 91% to 74%.

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