ST. CHARLES ELEMENTARY

ST. CHARLES ELEMENTARY, an average-sized elementary-level community in SAINT CHARLES, Minnesota, one of the schools within ST. CHARLES PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, instructs 457 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so ST. CHARLES ELEMENTARY sits 33% above that benchmark.

Within ST. CHARLES PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 2 schools and 936 students, ST. CHARLES ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ST. CHARLES ELEMENTARY records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). The remainder is composed of 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 29% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Winona County (around 40%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, ST. CHARLES ELEMENTARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.5%; this one delivers 54.0%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Winona County put median household income runs about $70,744, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Winona County runs 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,580 students), of which ST. CHARLES ELEMENTARY is one.

ST. CHARLES SECONDARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 6 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ST. CHARLES ELEMENTARY ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 48.1%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. ST. CHARLES ELEMENTARY's enrollment has edged down 12% since 2018, when it stood at 518 (now 457). Hispanic enrollment moved from 15% to 9% across the same window.

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