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Enrollment
576
Elementary
DISTRICT 640 · STATE 344
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN·NCES 273239001382
SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY
1025 WHITNEY DR, APPLE VALLEY, MN 55124 · (952) 431-8370 · Dakota County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL576 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 34% of Minnesota public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Minnesota public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
39%
225 students
DISTRICT 33% · STATE 48%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 79 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 82 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 101 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 114 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 93 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 107 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (79) is 26% smaller than its 5th grade class (107).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 60% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsEnglish Language Arts
49.2%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
47.1%
MN avg 45.3%
What 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 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
Source: MCA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
41.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.1%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY
SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY's state test result (41.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY this school | 576 | 39.1% | 41.8% |
| OLSON ELEMENTARY BLOOMINGTON | 524 | 40.5% | 40.5% |
| WESTVIEW ELEMENTARY APPLE VALLEY | 500 | 38.8% | 46.8% |
| Sun Path Elementary SHAKOPEE | 521 | 40.1% | 48.6% |
| Sweeney Elementary SHAKOPEE | 602 | 41.4% | 48.0% |
| Eagle Creek Elementary School SHAKOPEE | 625 | 40.8% | 46.7% |
Matched among Minnesota elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In Dakota County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.8% | #492 of 844 | #42 of 60 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.1% | #481 of 844 | #40 of 60 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.2% | #412 of 844 | #34 of 60 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 576 | #189 of 1,130 | #24 of 73 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.0:1 | #294 of 769 | #19 of 58 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.9% | #113 of 796 | #15 of 59 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 39.1% | #524 of 942 | #27 of 66 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.5% | #274 of 499 | #20 of 36 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
576
-63 (-10%) vs 2020
-25% since 1990-91, when it was 764
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
was 13.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 576 | 44.3 | 13.0:1 | 39% (225) |
| 2023-24 | 573 | 47.3 | 12.1:1 | 41% (234) |
| 2022-23 | 625 | 47.4 | 13.2:1 | 42% (265) |
| 2020-21 | 639 | 46 | 13.9:1 | 24% (153) |
| 2017-18 | 658 | 45.2 | 14.6:1 | 31% (206) |
| 2015-16 | 654 | 42 | 15.6:1 | 31% (204) |
| 2010-11 | 690 | 39 | 17.7:1 | 21% (146) |
| 2000-01 | 768 | 41 | 18.7:1 | 5% (42) |
| 1990-91 | 764 | 32 | 23.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (658 to 576); teachers down 2% (45.2 to 44.3).
About SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY
SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY is a large elementary school in APPLE VALLEY, Minnesota, under ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN. It is open to students in kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 576 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Minnesota enroll about 344 students on average.
The 36 schools in ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN enroll 29,224 students altogether, SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY among them.
White students make up 45% of enrollment at SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY, the largest share of any group. Beyond that, enrollment is 21% Black, 18% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, and 5% Asian. In Dakota County overall, about 74% of residents are White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 71, compared with 70 nationally.
Teacher count: 44.3 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 13.0:1. The average for elementary schools in Minnesota is about 13.7:1. Roughly 39% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
On the allk12 Grade, SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY lands at C, ahead of 34% of Minnesota public elementary schools.
After adjusting for student poverty, SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY lands between the top and bottom 10% of Minnesota schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 41.8%; the prediction is 44.1%.
The school is in Dakota County, where the median household earns about $106,318 a year, about 45% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Across Dakota County, 170 public schools serve about 74,687 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Valley Middle School of STEM, is less than a tenth of a mile. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY is 4th of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 576 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 639.
Use the discussion section to ask about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY. You can also rate the school on this page.
Dakota County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
445,771
Census ACS
Median income
$106,318
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
170
74,687 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN
- ROSEMOUNT SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,364 students
- EASTVIEW SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,328 students
- EAGAN SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,274 students
- APPLE VALLEY SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,999 students
- SCOTT HIGHLANDS MIDDLEMiddle · 1,228 students
- DAKOTA HILLS MIDDLEMiddle · 1,184 students
Other schools in APPLE VALLEY
- EASTVIEW SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,328 students
- APPLE VALLEY SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,999 students
- SCOTT HIGHLANDS MIDDLEMiddle · 1,228 students
- Valley Middle School of STEMMiddle · 1,090 students
- FALCON RIDGE MIDDLEMiddle · 1,088 students
- GREENLEAF ELEMENTARYElementary · 747 students
Other Southview Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 4 states are named Southview Elementary. SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY is the 2nd largest of the 6.
- SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARYWACONIA, MN · 544 students
- Southview ElementaryMARSHALL, MN · 524 students
- Southview Elementary SchoolTuscaloosa, AL · 644 students
- SOUTHVIEW ELEM.KEARNEY, MO · 455 students
- Southview ElementaryChippewa Falls, WI · 286 students
Nearby schools
- Valley Middle School of STEM0.1 mi · 1,090
- WESTVIEW ELEMENTARY0.9 mi · 500
- Cedar Park Elementary STEM School1.0 mi · 722
- OAK HILLS ELEMENTARY1.1 mi · 571
- LAKEVILLE EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM1.2 mi · 237
- APPLE VALLEY SENIOR HIGH1.3 mi · 1,999
Frequently asked questions
About SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARYWhat is the total enrollment at SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY?
SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 576 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY serve?
SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY?
Approximately 13.0:1 students per teacher at SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY.
What is the student diversity at SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY?
Student demographics at SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY are roughly 45% White, 18% Hispanic, 21% Black, 5% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY public or private?
SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY is a public K-12 school, overseen by ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.