WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY

WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY is a mid-sized elementary-level community in CLOQUET, Minnesota, overseen by CLOQUET PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school serves 495 students in grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY sits 44% above that benchmark.

Within CLOQUET PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 8 schools and 2,529 students, WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY shows that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment. Other groups include 17% multiracial, 14% Native American, 3% Hispanic. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 88%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 47% of students at WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Carlton County (around 35%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY sits in the top 10% of Minnesota schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 40.0%; actual is 58.5%, +18.5 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, Carlton County reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,573 per year, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Carlton County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,201 students), of which WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY is one.

CLOQUET AREA ALT. ED. PROGRAMS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY. On composite proficiency, WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 48.8%.

WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY operates from a town-based location.

Looking at the recent track record. WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY's enrollment has contracted 9% since 2018, when it stood at 544 (now 495).

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