SWWC ELC - Cosmos

Set in COSMOS, Minnesota, SWWC ELC - Cosmos is a modestly sized multi-level school, overseen by Region 6 and 8-SW/WC Service Coop. It instructs 39 students across grades K through 12. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 50 students each, so SWWC ELC - Cosmos sits 22% leaner than that benchmark.

Region 6 and 8-SW/WC Service Coop runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 292 students. SWWC ELC - Cosmos is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, SWWC ELC - Cosmos reports that the largest single group is White, at 69% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 18% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 3% Native American. By comparison, Meeker County as a whole is about 93% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, SWWC ELC - Cosmos has 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.9:1. The state averages around 6.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 72% of students at SWWC ELC - Cosmos qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Meeker County's rate of about 38%.

Across the wider county, Meeker County reports that median household earnings sit near $75,446, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Meeker County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,994 students), of which SWWC ELC - Cosmos is one.

Buffalo Lake-Hector-Stewart Element is the nearest neighboring public school, about 13.6 miles from this campus.

SWWC ELC - Cosmos operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. SWWC ELC - Cosmos's enrollment has shrank 22% since 2018, when it stood at 50 (now 39). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 84% to 69%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 4.5:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

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