Sawtooth Mountain Elementary

Sawtooth Mountain Elementary operates as a low-enrollment primary school in GRAND MARAIS, Minnesota, run under Cook County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 203 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so Sawtooth Mountain Elementary sits 41% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in Cook County Public Schools (475 students total), Sawtooth Mountain Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Sawtooth Mountain Elementary shows that White students make up the majority at 68%. Other groups include 13% Native American, 12% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 84% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.3:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 45% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Sawtooth Mountain Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 28.9%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate median household earnings sit near $72,638, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Sawtooth Mountain Elementary is one of 9 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 652 students).

Nearest neighbor: Cook County Senior High, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Sawtooth Mountain Elementary. On composite proficiency, Sawtooth Mountain Elementary comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 44.9%.

Sawtooth Mountain Elementary operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. Sawtooth Mountain Elementary's enrollment has shrank 8% since 2018, when it stood at 221 (now 203). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.

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