WABASSO ELEMENTARY

WABASSO ELEMENTARY is one of the close-knit elementary-level communitys in WABASSO, Minnesota, part of WABASSO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 167 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so WABASSO ELEMENTARY sits 51% smaller than that benchmark.

Within WABASSO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 2 schools and 404 students, WABASSO ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WABASSO ELEMENTARY lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). Beyond that, the school logs 4% multiracial, 2% Native American.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. About 41% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WABASSO ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.2%, the actual is 47.6%, a residual of +4.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Redwood County indicate median household income runs about $67,866, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Redwood County's 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,468 students), WABASSO ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

WABASSO SECONDARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, WABASSO ELEMENTARY comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 42.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WABASSO ELEMENTARY has stayed largely flat, going from 163 students in 2018 to 167 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 9.1:1 today.

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