Public school / Other
Minnesota Valley School
Saint Peter, Minnesota
- NCES ID
- 270006302389
- School type
- Special education
- Title I
- Not designated
Minnesota Valley School is a public other school in Saint Peter, Minnesota, run by Minnesota Valley Education District. It enrols 32 students — the 93205th 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
32
Teachers
6.0
Students per teacher
5.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
75.0%
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 Minnesota Valley Education 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.
- 1Minnesota Valley School32 students
- 2Mn Valley Ed. Dist. Early Childhood24 students
- 3Minnesota River School11 students
- 4Minnesota Prairie School5 students
- Enrollment−89.4%
- Teachers−71.4%
- Students per teacher−63.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+53.4%
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