TALAHI COMMUNITY ELEMENTARY

TALAHI COMMUNITY ELEMENTARY is an elementary campus of sizable scale in SAINT CLOUD, Minnesota, run under ST. CLOUD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, educateing 701 students in grades pre-K through 3. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so TALAHI COMMUNITY ELEMENTARY sits 104% above that benchmark.

ST. CLOUD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 22 schools in total, collectively educating 9,803 students. TALAHI COMMUNITY ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, TALAHI COMMUNITY ELEMENTARY logs that the largest single group is Black at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 21% White, 11% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 4% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, TALAHI COMMUNITY ELEMENTARY has 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Around 84% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Sherburne County runs at roughly 29%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), TALAHI COMMUNITY ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 19.9%, the actual is 16.9%, a residual of -3.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, Sherburne County reports that median household earnings sit near $105,466, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Sherburne County's 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,306 students), TALAHI COMMUNITY ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: MN CORRECTIONAL FACILITY-ST. CLOUD, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around TALAHI COMMUNITY ELEMENTARY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts TALAHI COMMUNITY ELEMENTARY at 3rd of 4; the average score across the group is 20.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. TALAHI COMMUNITY ELEMENTARY's enrollment has rose 8% since 2018, when it stood at 649 (now 701). Over the same period, the Black share declined from 70% to 54%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.