Public school / Primary
Cowern Elementary
North Saint Paul, Minnesota
- NCES ID
- 272385001168
- District
- North St. Paul-Maplewood Oakdale
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Cowern Elementary is a public primary school in North Saint Paul, Minnesota, run by North St. Paul-Maplewood Oakdale. It enrols 403 students — the 50432nd largest of 2,771 public schools in Minnesota.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
403
Teachers
30.0
Students per teacher
13.4
Free or reduced-price lunch
71.2%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within North St. Paul-Maplewood Oakdale
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Tartan Senior High1,683 students
- 2North Senior High1,594 students
- 3Skyview Community Middle1,004 students
- 4John Glenn Middle985 students
- 5Carver Elementary878 students
- 6Justice Alan Page Elementary School814 students
- 7Eagle Point Elementary771 students
- 8Richardson Elementary575 students
- Enrollment+33.9%
- Teachers+42.9%
- Students per teacher−8.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+45.6%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory