Public school / Other
Prairie Lakes Education Center
Willmar, Minnesota
- NCES ID
- 274272004673
- District
- Willmar Public School District
- School type
- Alternative
- Title I
- Not designated
Prairie Lakes Education Center is a public other school in Willmar, Minnesota, run by Willmar Public School District. It enrols 36 students — the 92850th 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
36
Teachers
8.0
Students per teacher
4.5
Free or reduced-price lunch
91.7%
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 Willmar 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.
- 1Willmar Senior High1,224 students
- 2Willmar Middle School874 students
- 3Kennedy Elementary715 students
- 4Roosevelt Elementary649 students
- 5Lakeland Elementary School565 students
- 6Willmar Area Learning Center109 students
- 7Jefferson Learning Center73 students
- 8Prairie Lakes Education Center36 students
- Enrollment−88.0%
- Teachers−61.9%
- Students per teacher−69.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+87.5%
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