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Dassel-Cokato Public Schools

Cokato, Minnesota · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

2,020
Students enrolled
5
Public schools
128
Classroom teachers (FTE)
15.8:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 33
  • Kindergarten 138
  • Grade 1 144
  • Grade 2 137
  • Grade 3 165
  • Grade 4 148
  • Grade 5 145
  • Grade 6 139
  • Grade 7 150
  • Grade 8 142
  • Grade 9 160
  • Grade 10 165
  • Grade 11 158
  • Grade 12 196

By race/ethnicity

  • White 92%
  • Hispanic/Latino 4%
  • Two or more races 3%
  • Black or African American <1%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <1%
  • Asian <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

29% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 584 of 2,020 students in the district's schools
  • Free lunch 21%
  • Reduced-price lunch 8%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$13,439 spent per student on day-to-day operations Minnesota median: $15,494 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $8,657
  • Support services $4,101
  • Other (food service, etc.) $680

Where the money comes from

  • Local 25%
  • State 71%
  • Federal 4%

Total revenue $33.5 milliontotal spending $37.6 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

PK to 12

Locale (NCES)

Rural: Remote

Total staff (FTE)

290

District office

4852 REARDON AVE SW STE 1700, Cokato MN 55321

County

Wright County

Official website

NCES District ID

2710060

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About Dassel-Cokato Public Schools

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

The Dassel-Cokato School District is a rural school district in central Minnesota. It serves the steadily growing communities of Dassel and Cokato which have a combined population of approximately 3100 residents. The entire school district, which includes many rural and lake homes, has a total population of 7910 residents. The district consists of three modern, attractive and well-maintained school facilities with additions as recent as 1998. Each community hosts a K-4 elementary school, and a larger complex is located halfway between Dassel and Cokato on highway twelve which includes a pre-school, a community education center, a 5-8 middle school and a 9-12 high school. Total school enrollment has been steadily increasing, and current K-12 enrollment is approximately 2300 students. District employees number about 350 with 141 of those being teachers.
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