Sunset Terrace Elementary School

Sunset Terrace Elementary School is an elementary school of average-sized scale in ROCHESTER, Minnesota, one of the schools within Rochester Public School District, teacheing 437 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so Sunset Terrace Elementary School sits 27% above that benchmark.

Within Rochester Public School District, which oversees 44 schools and 17,171 students, Sunset Terrace Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Sunset Terrace Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 24% Black, 12% multiracial, 11% Hispanic, 10% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

On the income-and-resources front, Roughly 56% of students at Sunset Terrace Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Olmsted County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sunset Terrace Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.0%, the actual is 35.9%, a residual of +0.9 points.

Across the wider county, Olmsted County reports that the typical household earns roughly $95,406 per year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Olmsted County's 72 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,627 students), Sunset Terrace Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

John Marshall High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Sunset Terrace Elementary School at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 44.1%.

Sunset Terrace Elementary School operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sunset Terrace Elementary School has ticked down 37%, going from 691 students in 2018 to 437 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 52% to 42%.

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