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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Weaver Lake Science Math & Tech Sch administration to hear?
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Enrollment
668
Elementary
DISTRICT 511 · STATE 344
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OSSEO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 272520001211
Weaver Lake Science Math & Tech Sch
15900 WEAVER LAKE RD, MAPLE GROVE, MN 55311 · (763) 420-3337 · Hennepin County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL668 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 87% of Minnesota public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Minnesota public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
19.3:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.2:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
29%
196 students
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 48%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 95 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 103 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 107 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 112 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 123 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 128 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (95) is 26% smaller than its 5th grade class (128).
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 60% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsEnglish Language Arts
62.1%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
68.0%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
Source: MCA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
60.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.3%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Minnesota's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Weaver Lake Science Math & Tech Sch
Weaver Lake Science Math & Tech Sch's state test result (60.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weaver Lake Science Math & Tech Sch this school | 668 | 29.3% | 60.7% |
| GLACIER HILLS SCHOOL - ARTS/SCIENCE EAGAN | 707 | 28.6% | 60.6% |
| Woodbury Leadership Elementary WOODBURY | 658 | 23.3% | 63.7% |
| CORNELIA ELEMENTARY EDINA | 617 | 26.6% | 60.4% |
| EDEN LAKE ELEMENTARY EDEN PRAIRIE | 658 | 30.7% | 57.3% |
| FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY EDEN PRAIRIE | 603 | 35.8% | 68.6% |
Matched among Minnesota elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Weaver Lake Science Math & Tech Sch ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In Hennepin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.7% | #130 of 844 | #41 of 169 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.0% | #146 of 844 | #44 of 169 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.1% | #159 of 844 | #50 of 169 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 668 | #108 of 1,130 | #31 of 206 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.3:1 | #756 of 769 | #161 of 164 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.9% | #72 of 796 | #24 of 165 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 29.3% | #694 of 942 | #131 of 183 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.0% | #182 of 244 | #38 of 50 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
668
+251 (+60%) vs 2020
+8% since 1990-91, when it was 618
Student : Teacher
19.3:1
was 16.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 668 | 34.5 | 19.3:1 | 29% (196) |
| 2023-24 | 651 | 33.4 | 19.5:1 | 37% (240) |
| 2022-23 | 638 | 32.6 | 19.6:1 | 37% (234) |
| 2020-21 | 417 | 26 | 16.0:1 | 21% (87) |
| 2017-18 | 642 | 35.6 | 18.1:1 | 34% (220) |
| 2015-16 | 641 | 34 | 18.9:1 | 33% (214) |
| 2010-11 | 753 | 38 | 19.8:1 | 23% (176) |
| 2000-01 | 450 | 29 | 15.5:1 | 30% (137) |
| 1990-91 | 618 | 34 | 18.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Weaver Lake Science Math & Tech Sch.
Since 2017-18: students up 4% (642 to 668); teachers down 3% (35.6 to 34.5).
About Weaver Lake Science Math & Tech Sch
Weaver Lake Science Math & Tech Sch is a large elementary school in MAPLE GROVE, Minnesota, under OSSEO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school counted 668 students in 2024-25, covering pre-K through 5. It has 94% more students than the average for elementary schools in Minnesota (about 344).
OSSEO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT has 21,138 students in 31 schools, and Weaver Lake Science Math & Tech Sch is one of those schools.
White students account for 39% of enrollment at Weaver Lake Science Math & Tech Sch, more than any other group. The remaining students are 25% Black, 20% Asian, 10% multiracial, and 5% Hispanic. Among people living in Hennepin County, the White share is about 66%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Weaver Lake Science Math & Tech Sch scores 73%.
The school lists 34.5 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.3:1. The average for elementary schools in Minnesota is 13.7:1, so this school has more students per teacher. A total of 196 students, or 29%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 43% for public schools in Hennepin County.
On the allk12 Grade, Weaver Lake Science Math & Tech Sch lands at A, ahead of 87% of Minnesota public elementary schools.
Weaver Lake Science Math & Tech Sch posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 60.7%, compared with a predicted 49.3%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Minnesota schools on BeatsExpectations.
American Community Survey estimates for Hennepin County show that median household income comes to about $97,653, roughly 54% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Hennepin County counts 496 public schools with about 177,509 students.
A public school about 0.6 miles away, Minnesota Excellence in Learning Ac, is the closest to Weaver Lake Science Math & Tech Sch. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Weaver Lake Science Math & Tech Sch ranks 1st on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for Weaver Lake Science Math & Tech Sch is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, reported enrollment went from 417 to 668. Such a large difference may reflect a change in the grades served. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio increased from 16.0:1 to 19.3:1.
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Hennepin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,269,496
Census ACS
Median income
$97,653
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
54%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
496
177,509 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in OSSEO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
- MAPLE GROVE SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,453 students
- OSSEO SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,289 students
- PARK CENTER IB WORLD SCHOOLHigh · 2,061 students
- Maple Grove Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,598 students
- Osseo Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,128 students
- FERNBROOK ELEMENTARYElementary · 952 students
Other schools in MAPLE GROVE
- MAPLE GROVE SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,453 students
- Maple Grove Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,598 students
- FERNBROOK ELEMENTARYElementary · 952 students
- BASSWOOD ELEMENTARYElementary · 848 students
- RUSH CREEK ELEMENTARYElementary · 762 students
- Parnassus Prep Sch-GrammarElementary · 623 students
Nearby schools
- Minnesota Excellence in Learning Ac0.6 mi · 231
- RUSH CREEK ELEMENTARY1.5 mi · 762
- RICE LAKE ELEMENTARY1.6 mi · 623
- FERNBROOK ELEMENTARY1.7 mi · 952
- MAPLE GROVE SENIOR HIGH2.0 mi · 2,453
- BASSWOOD ELEMENTARY2.2 mi · 848
Frequently asked questions
About Weaver Lake Science Math & Tech SchHow many students attend Weaver Lake Science Math & Tech Sch?
Weaver Lake Science Math & Tech Sch enrolls approximately 668 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Weaver Lake Science Math & Tech Sch serve?
Weaver Lake Science Math & Tech Sch serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Weaver Lake Science Math & Tech Sch?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Weaver Lake Science Math & Tech Sch is approximately 19.3:1 (35 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Weaver Lake Science Math & Tech Sch?
At Weaver Lake Science Math & Tech Sch, the student body is approximately 39% White, 5% Hispanic, 25% Black, 20% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is Weaver Lake Science Math & Tech Sch public or private?
Weaver Lake Science Math & Tech Sch is a public K-12 school, overseen by OSSEO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.