NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools MN

Best-Resourced Schools in Chanhassen, MN

Compiled from official source data by PlainSchools. · Updated August 2026

5 public K-12 schools in Chanhassen from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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Schools

2,308

Students

52.4/100

Avg Resource Index

11.5:1

Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Chanhassen has more public-school enrollment than 17% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Chanhassen High School enrolls 60.0% of Chanhassen's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

2 of Chanhassen's 5 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Chanhassen lists only 5 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 7 to 1,385 students, a 198-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment: Top 83%
School count: Top 99%
Resource Index average: 92nd percentile
Teacher staffing: 92nd percentile

Chanhassen High School accounts for 60.0% of all Chanhassen public-school enrollment

That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Chanhassen a distant remainder — means Chanhassen-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data Accessed 2026-08-26

Chanhassen school enrollment varies 198× across entities

Chanhassen school enrollment ranges from 7 students (lowest) to 1,385 students (highest), a spread of 1,378 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data Accessed 2026-08-26

Chanhassen student-teacher ratio is 11.5:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe Accessed 2026-08-26

#	School	Score	Enrollment	Level	District
1.	Bluff Creek Elementary	58	462	elementary	Eastern Carver County Public School
2.	The Anicca Program	58	7	Combined	Eastern Carver County Public School
3.	Chanhassen Elementary	52	447	elementary	Eastern Carver County Public School
4.	Swmetro Annica Program	51	7	Combined	Southwest Metro Intermediate 288
5.	Chanhassen High School	43	1,385	high	Eastern Carver County Public School

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Chanhassen

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

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Which Chanhassen school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Bluff Creek Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Chanhassen schools in this federal-data comparison at 58/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Chanhassen, MN? ▼

Chanhassen has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,308 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.5:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.