Willie Jett Commissioner of Education Minnesota Department of Education | Office of Gov. Tim Walz
Willie Jett Commissioner of Education Minnesota Department of Education | Office of Gov. Tim Walz
In terms of gender distribution, the student body in Nicollet County comprised 52% boys, with girls representing the remaining 48%.
Data also showed that white students made up 74.4% of the student body, the largest percentage in Nicollet County schools, followed by Hispanic students with 11.8%, 7.4% Black students, 3.8% multiracial students, 1.4% American Indian students, 1.1% Asian students, 0.1% Hawaiian Pacific Islander students and less than 0.1% Other Indigenous Peoples students.
Dakota Meadows Middle School had the highest enrollment among Nicollet County's 11 schools in the 2023-24 school year, welcoming 886 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dakota Meadows Middle School | 878 | 886 | 0.9% |
| St. Peter High School | 718 | 711 | -1% |
| St. Peter Middle School | 621 | 596 | -4% |
| Hoover Elementary | 503 | 493 | -2% |
| North Elementary School | 383 | 423 | 10.4% |
| Monroe Elementary | 428 | 405 | -5.4% |
| South Elementary School | 275 | 271 | -1.5% |
| Bridges Community Elementary | 233 | 250 | 7.3% |
| Nicollet High School | 177 | 170 | -4% |
| Nicollet Elementary School | 163 | 163 | 0% |
| Rock Bend HS ALC | 22 | 23 | 4.5% |
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