Public school / Primary
Parker Elementary
Elk River, Minnesota
- NCES ID
- 271137000520
- District
- Elk River Public School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Parker Elementary is a public primary school in Elk River, Minnesota, run by Elk River Public School District. It enrols 530 students — the 33768th 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
530
Teachers
29.0
Students per teacher
18.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
32.6%
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 Elk River 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.
- 1Rogers Senior High1,740 students
- 2Elk River Senior High1,637 students
- 3Rogers Middle School979 students
- 4Prairie View Middle School815 students
- 5Zimmerman High School707 students
- 6Twin Lakes Elementary705 students
- 7Prairie View Elementary School675 students
- 8Hassan Elementary664 students
- Enrollment+76.1%
- Teachers+38.1%
- Students per teacher+25.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−33.3%
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