Summary:
The Lancaster Public School District has only one elementary school, Lancaster Elementary, which serves grades PK-6 with a total enrollment of 105 students. The school has a predominantly white student population, with 94.29% of students identifying as white, and a relatively high rate of free and reduced lunch recipients at 60%, indicating a significant population of economically disadvantaged students.
Academically, Lancaster Elementary has mixed performance compared to state averages. While the school's proficiency rates in Math (49.21%) are higher than the district average (36%) but lower than the state average (45.47%), its Reading proficiency rate (39.06%) is lower than both the district (42.16%) and state (49.85%) averages. However, the school performs better than the state in Science, with a 64.29% proficiency rate for all grades compared to the state's 39.56%.
Despite its challenges, Lancaster Elementary has a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 13.7, which may indicate smaller class sizes and more individualized attention for students. However, the school has consistently ranked in the bottom half of Minnesota elementary schools, with a 2-star rating from SchoolDigger for the past three school years, suggesting the need for continued improvement efforts to address the academic and socioeconomic factors impacting student outcomes.
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