NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools MN

Best-Resourced Schools in Otsego, MN

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

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6
Schools
2,737
Students
30/100
Avg Resource Index
21.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Otsego has more public-school enrollment than 24% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Otsego's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

4 of Otsego's 6 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Otsego lists only 6 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 76 to 953 students, a 13-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 76%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
12th percentile
Teacher staffing
11th percentile

Prairie View Middle School accounts for 34.8% of all Otsego public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Otsego-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Elementary. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Otsego school enrollment varies 13× across entities

Otsego school enrollment ranges from 76 students (lowest) to 953 students (highest), a spread of 877 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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

Otsego student-teacher ratio is 21.1:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

3 of Otsego's 6 listed schools are charters

50% of the city's listed public-school campuses are reported as charter schools in NCES CCD. Charter status identifies a different governance arrangement; it does not establish admissions availability, academic quality, or the share of city students enrolled in those campuses. Open each school record to compare enrollment and staffing directly.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

# School Score
1. Kaleidoscope Charter High School 45
2. Kaleidoscope Charter Elementary Sch 30
3. Kaleidoscope Middle School 30
4. Otsego Elementary 27
5. Prairie View Middle School 24
6. Prairie View Elementary School 24

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Otsego

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.

  1. 1 Prairie View Elementary School 53.8/100
  2. 2 Kaleidoscope Charter Elementary Sch 44.4/100
  3. 3 Prairie View Middle School 43.3/100
  4. 4 Otsego Elementary 40.7/100
  5. 5 Kaleidoscope Middle School 38.2/100

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Which Otsego school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Kaleidoscope Charter High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Otsego schools in this federal-data comparison at 45/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Otsego, MN? ▼

Otsego has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,737 students. 3 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 21.1:1.

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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.