Rosa Parks Elementary

Rosa Parks Elementary is a K-5 school of moderately sized scale in MANKATO, Minnesota, one of the schools within MANKATO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, serveing 425 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so Rosa Parks Elementary sits 24% above that benchmark.

Rosa Parks Elementary is one of 22 schools operated by MANKATO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that educates 8,219 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Rosa Parks Elementary records that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 21% Black, 12% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Blue Earth County as a whole is about 85% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 56% of students at Rosa Parks Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Blue Earth County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Rosa Parks Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.6%.

Around the school, census data for Blue Earth County shows median household income runs about $74,477, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Blue Earth County's 31 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,034 students), Rosa Parks Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Mankato Schools Center for Learning, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rosa Parks Elementary. On composite proficiency, Rosa Parks Elementary comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.4%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 16%: 504 students in 2018 compared to 425 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 69% to 52%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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