Voyager Elementary

Set in ALEXANDRIA, Minnesota, Voyager Elementary is a mid-sized elementary campus, overseen by Alexandria Public School District. It caters to 446 students across grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 344 students per school, that is 30% bigger than typical.

Alexandria Public School District runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 4,034 students. Voyager Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Voyager Elementary lists that nearly all students (92%) are White; the rest consists of 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Douglas County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Voyager Elementary logs 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.9:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Voyager Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.1%, the actual is 54.4%, a residual of +4.3 points.

In the area at large, census data for Douglas County shows the typical household earns roughly $79,043 per year, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Douglas County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,781 students), of which Voyager Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Runestone Alternative School, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Voyager Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Voyager Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 44.9%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Voyager Elementary has ticked down 13%, going from 512 students in 2018 to 446 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.

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