Sand Creek Elementary

Sand Creek Elementary operates as an expansive K-5 school in COON RAPIDS, Minnesota, part of Anoka-Hennepin School District. Current enrollment sits at 557 students spanning grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 344 students per school, that is 62% larger than typical.

Anoka-Hennepin School District runs 53 schools in total, collectively educating 38,746 students. Sand Creek Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Sand Creek Elementary reports that 50% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 18% Black, 12% multiracial, 11% Asian, 8% Hispanic. By comparison, Anoka County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Sand Creek Elementary has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. About 45% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Sand Creek Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.0%; this one delivers 39.8%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Anoka County) shows that median household income runs about $101,869, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Sand Creek Elementary is one of 145 public schools in Anoka County (combined enrollment of about 59,656 students).

Compass-Bell Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Sand Creek Elementary comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 46.8%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 26%: 754 students in 2018 compared to 557 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 69% to 50% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

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