NCES CCD 2024-25 12 schools MN

Best-Resourced Schools in Owatonna, MN

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

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12
Schools
4,793
Students
48.5/100
Avg Resource Index
16.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Owatonna has more public-school enrollment than 53% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Owatonna sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Owatonna's list includes 4 elementary, 2 middle, and 3 high-school campuses, plus 3 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Owatonna's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 83rd percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 36th percentile. The 47-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 47%
School count
Top 31%
Resource Index average
83rd percentile
Teacher staffing
36th percentile

Owatonna Senior High accounts for 30.6% of all Owatonna public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Owatonna-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. 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

Owatonna school enrollment varies 105× across entities

Owatonna school enrollment ranges from 14 students (lowest) to 1,468 students (highest), a spread of 1,454 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

Owatonna student-teacher ratio is 16.7:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

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 Variation between sub-units within Owatonna is typically wider than the Owatonna-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Owatonna Online K-5 70
2. Washington Elementary 68
3. Lincoln Elementary 64
4. Wilson Elementary 62
5. Mckinley Elementary 61
6. Owatonna Alc 9-12 59
7. Owatonna Ecse 53
8. Owatonna Senior High 43
9. Owatonna Middle School 37
10. Owatonna Online 9-12 35
11. Choice Technical Academy 15
12. Owatonna Online 6-8 15

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Owatonna

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 Owatonna Alc 9-12 66.9/100
  2. 2 Wilson Elementary 60.6/100
  3. 3 Mckinley Elementary 58.3/100
  4. 4 Owatonna Online 9-12 55.9/100
  5. 5 Choice Technical Academy 53.1/100

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Which Owatonna school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Owatonna Online K-5 has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Owatonna schools in this federal-data comparison at 70/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Owatonna, MN? ▼

Owatonna has 12 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,793 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.7:1.

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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.