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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Primary

Garlough Environmental Magnet

West Saint Paul, Minnesota

NCES ID
274227001773
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Garlough Environmental Magnet is a public primary school in West Saint Paul, Minnesota, run by West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan. It enrols 389 students — the 52565th largest of 2,771 public schools in Minnesota.

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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

389students

52565th nationally, tied with 181

Teachers

46.0FTE

18182nd nationally, tied with 968

Students per teacher

8.5students

4879th nationally, tied with 222

Free or reduced-price lunch

60.2%percent

40322nd nationally, tied with 78

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.

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Within West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan

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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Two Rivers High School1,479 students
  2. 2Heritage E-Stem Magnet School768 students
  3. 3Friendly Hills Middle735 students
  4. 4Mendota Elementary392 students
  5. 5Garlough Environmental Magnet389 students
  6. 6Moreland Art/Health Science Magnet384 students
  7. 7Somerset Elementary383 students
  8. 8Pilot Knob STEM Magnet School377 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Minnesota median across 2,771 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+29.2%
  • Teachers+119.0%
  • Students per teacher−41.8%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+23.1%
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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.