SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY

As a sprawling elementary-level community in WACONIA, Minnesota, SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY enrolls 544 students from grades K through 5, run under WACONIA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY sits 58% larger than that benchmark.

SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY is one of 10 schools operated by WACONIA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that instructs 3,984 students overall.

In terms of who attends, SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY records that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. Compared to Carver County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 14% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.8%, the actual is 59.9%, a residual of +2.1 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Carver County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $125,946 per year, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Carver County runs 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,076 students), of which SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY is one.

TRANSITIONS 110 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY at 3rd of 5; the average score across the group is 57.2%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Over the past 7-year window. SOUTHVIEW ELEMENTARY's enrollment has contracted 13% since 2018, when it stood at 628 (now 544).

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