SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY

SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY is a roomy K-5 school in APPLE VALLEY, Minnesota, one of the schools within ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN. The school caters to 576 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 67% bigger than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.

SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY is one of 36 schools operated by ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN, a district that teaches 29,224 students overall.

On the student-mix side, SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY lists that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 21% Black, 18% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 5% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.0:1. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 39% of students at SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.1%, the actual is 41.8%, a residual of -2.3 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (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 the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Dakota County's 170 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,687 students), SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Valley Middle School of STEM, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 43.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY's enrollment has fell 12% since 2018, when it stood at 658 (now 576). The White share of enrollment declined from 59% to 45% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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