WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY

WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY is one of the low-enrollment K-5 schools in ELY, Minnesota, overseen by ELY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 201 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 42% leaner than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.

WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY is one of 3 schools operated by ELY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that educates 528 students overall.

Demographically, WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). Other groups include 9% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 39% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY ranks in the top 10% of Minnesota public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 44.2%; WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY posts 58.2%, +14.0 points above that line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for St. Louis County put median household earnings sit near $70,069, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, St. Louis County runs 100 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,921 students), of which WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY is one.

Ely ISD 696 Credit Recovery is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 33.6%.

WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY's enrollment has fell 33% since 2018, when it stood at 299 (now 201). Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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