Willie Jett Commissioner of Education Minnesota Department of Education | sahanjournal.com
Willie Jett Commissioner of Education Minnesota Department of Education | sahanjournal.com
In terms of gender distribution, the student body in Pennington County comprised 51.2% boys, with girls representing the remaining 48.8%.
Data also showed that white students made up 83.2% of the student body, the largest percentage in Pennington County schools, followed by Hispanic students with 6.2%, 5.6% American Indian students, 3.4% multiracial students, 0.9% Asian students, 0.7% Black students and less than 0.1% Other Indigenous Peoples students.
Challenger Elementary had the highest enrollment among Pennington County's six schools in the 2023-24 school year, welcoming 781 students.
Minnesota's educational system, the 10th largest in the United States, serves over 869,000 students across 2,709 institutions. As of 2024, the student-to-teacher ratio in the state’s public schools is 1:16, slightly worse than the national average of 1:15.
Meanwhile, data from the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reveals that Minnesota fourth and eighth graders performed mostly above the national average in math, their scores suggest a slight decline from previous years, particularly in reading.
| School name | Total enrollment in 2022-23 | Total enrollment in 2023-24 | % change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Challenger Elementary | 783 | 781 | -0.3% |
| Lincoln Senior High | 570 | 565 | -0.9% |
| Franklin Middle | 421 | 436 | 3.6% |
| Goodridge Elementary | 149 | 156 | 4.7% |
| Goodridge Secondary | 114 | 108 | -5.3% |
| NORTHWEST AREA LEARNING CENTER | 32 | 29 | -9.4% |
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