Elementary · Minnesota
Discovery Community Elementary
Free meals for allDiscovery Community Elementary, a public elementary school in Waite Park, Minnesota: grades pre-k–5, 572 students, 13.2 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of St. Cloud Public School District.
Size and class size
Compared with elementary schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 572
- Teachers (FTE)
- 43.4
- Students per teacher
- 13.2
- Grades
- Pre-K–5
- Elementary
Fewer students per teacher than 51% of elementary schools in Minnesota
Median 13.3 · 967 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 66% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Larger than 81% of elementary schools in Minnesota
Median 389 · 1,009 schools compared
Larger than 77% of elementary schools in the US
Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Elementary · Grades Pre-K–5
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Midsize suburb
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with St. Cloud Public School District.
Location
- Address
- 700 7TH St S, Waite Park, MN 56387
- Phone
- (320)370-6180
- City or town
- Waite Park
- County
- Stearns County
Nearby elementary schools
The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Stride Academy K-8 Charter SchoolCharterFree meals for all | K–8 | 569 | 10.2 |
Oak Hill Community ElementaryFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 878 | 14.8 |
Athlos Academy of Saint CloudCharterFree meals for all | K–8 | 260 | 13.0 |
Westwood ElementaryFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 531 | 14.8 |
Madison ElementaryFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 704 | 13.6 |
Success Academy St. Cloud ElemCharterFree meals for all | K–5 | 140 | 17.5 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level.
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