Taylors Falls Elementary

As an average-sized elementary campus in TAYLORS FALLS, Minnesota, Taylors Falls Elementary instructs 329 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under Chisago Lakes School District.

Chisago Lakes School District runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,317 students. Taylors Falls Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Taylors Falls Elementary logs that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 3% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. Compared to Chisago County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Taylors Falls Elementary logs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. An estimated 25% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Taylors Falls Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.8%; this one delivers 40.7%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Chisago County put the typical household earns roughly $99,400 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Taylors Falls Elementary is one of 27 public schools in Chisago County (combined enrollment of about 7,668 students).

The closest other public school is Saint Croix Falls Elementary, roughly 1.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Taylors Falls Elementary. On composite proficiency, Taylors Falls Elementary comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 63.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 14%: 384 students in 2018 compared to 329 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.

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