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ROSEMOUNT ELEMENTARY
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 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 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ROSEMOUNT ELEMENTARY
Located at 3155 143RD ST W, in ROSEMOUNT, Minnesota, ROSEMOUNT ELEMENTARY is a substantial elementary school that enrolls 803 students (grades K through 5), overseen by ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so ROSEMOUNT ELEMENTARY sits 133% bigger than that benchmark.
Within ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN, which oversees 36 schools and 29,224 students, ROSEMOUNT ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.
On demographics, ROSEMOUNT ELEMENTARY records that 64% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 16% Black, 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, ROSEMOUNT ELEMENTARY has 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Dakota County (around 34%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
With demographic context factored in, ROSEMOUNT ELEMENTARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.1%; this one delivers 44.7%.
In the broader community, Dakota County reports that the typical household earns roughly $106,318 per year, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. ROSEMOUNT ELEMENTARY is one of 170 public schools in Dakota County (combined enrollment of about 74,687 students).
Nearest neighbor: ROSEMOUNT MIDDLE, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ROSEMOUNT ELEMENTARY ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 58.8%.
Geographically, the school is in a residential area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ROSEMOUNT ELEMENTARY has climbed 15%, going from 698 students in 2018 to 803 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 72% to 64% across the same window.
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Dakota County at a glance
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