Sibley Elementary

Sibley Elementary is an elementary school of cozy scale in ALBERT LEA, Minnesota, operated by Albert Lea Public School District, hosting 275 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 20% smaller than the state mean of about 344.

Albert Lea Public School District comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 3,335 students; Sibley Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Sibley Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 20% Hispanic, 20% Asian, 4% multiracial, 4% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.

On the resource side, Sibley Elementary records 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.0:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 67% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Freeborn County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Sibley Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 29.3%; this one delivers 27.7%.

In the surrounding community, Freeborn County reports that median household earnings sit near $71,023, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Sibley Elementary is one of 19 public schools in Freeborn County (combined enrollment of about 4,061 students).

Southwest Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sibley Elementary. On composite proficiency, Sibley Elementary comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 32.8%.

Sibley Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sibley Elementary has fell 36%, going from 427 students in 2018 to 275 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 70% to 52% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

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