Southview Elementary

Southview Elementary is a K-5 school of heavily attended scale in MARSHALL, Minnesota, part of MARSHALL PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, educateing 524 students in grades 2 through 4. That puts it 52% bigger than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.

Southview Elementary is one of 7 schools operated by MARSHALL PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that caters to 2,664 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Southview Elementary logs that the largest single group is White at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 24% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 7% Black, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Southview Elementary logs 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Roughly 59% of students at Southview Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Lyon County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Southview Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.6%; this one delivers 44.3%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Lyon County indicate median household earnings sit near $75,303, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Southview Elementary is one of 21 public schools in Lyon County (combined enrollment of about 4,803 students).

Nearest neighbor: MARSHALL MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Southview Elementary.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

On the community side, members of the Southview Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.