Sumner Elementary

Sumner Elementary is one of the mid-sized elementary campuss in AUSTIN, Minnesota, operated by Austin Public School District, with 387 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4.

Across the 12 schools in Austin Public School District (5,385 students total), Sumner Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Sumner Elementary shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 22% White, 14% Black, 11% Asian, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 14% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 72% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Mower County's rate of about 55%.

With demographic context factored in, Sumner Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 26.3%; this one delivers 19.8%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Mower County shows the typical household earns roughly $73,074 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Mower County runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,434 students), of which Sumner Elementary is one.

Austin Area Learning Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 7%: 361 students in 2018 compared to 387 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share contracted from 18% to 11%. Class-load math has fell: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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