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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Primary

Houston Elementary

Houston, Minnesota

NCES ID
271428000748
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Houston Elementary is a public primary school in Houston, Minnesota, run by Houston Public School District. It enrols 222 students — the 75597th 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

222students

75597th nationally, tied with 98

Teachers

24.0FTE

55524th nationally, tied with 2,299

Students per teacher

9.3students

6765th nationally, tied with 300

Free or reduced-price lunch

51.8%percent

48727th nationally, tied with 107

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 Houston Public School District

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. 1Minnesota Virtual Academy High814 students
  2. 2Minnesota Virtual Academy Elementar451 students
  3. 3Minnesota Virtual Academy Middle403 students
  4. 4Houston Elementary222 students
  5. 5Houston Secondary211 students
  6. 6Summit Learning Program14 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment−26.2%
  • Teachers+14.3%
  • Students per teacher−36.3%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+5.9%
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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.