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South Washington County Schools

Cottage Grove, Minnesota · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

19,578
Students enrolled
29
Public schools
1,161
Classroom teachers (FTE)
16.9:1
Students per teacher

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

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 677
  • Kindergarten 1,242
  • Grade 1 1,331
  • Grade 2 1,420
  • Grade 3 1,445
  • Grade 4 1,426
  • Grade 5 1,507
  • Grade 6 1,425
  • Grade 7 1,425
  • Grade 8 1,436
  • Grade 9 1,513
  • Grade 10 1,527
  • Grade 11 1,539
  • Grade 12 1,665

By race/ethnicity

  • White 57%
  • Asian 14%
  • Black or African American 10%
  • Hispanic/Latino 10%
  • Two or more races 9%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <1%
  • Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <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

23% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 4,589 of 19,571 students in the 27 of its 28 schools that report
  • Free lunch 18%
  • Reduced-price lunch 5%

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

$15,266 spent per student on day-to-day operations Minnesota median: $15,494 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $10,087
  • Support services $4,540
  • Other (food service, etc.) $639

Where the money comes from

  • Local 36%
  • State 61%
  • Federal 3%

Total revenue $389.9 milliontotal spending $368.2 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)

Suburb: Large

Total staff (FTE)

2,631

District office

7362 E POINT DOUGLAS RD S, Cottage Grove MN 55016

County

Washington County

Official website

NCES District ID

2733810

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About South Washington County Schools

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

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