Southwest Metro Intermediate 288 operates 15 public schools serving 484 students, placing it among the smaller districts in Minnesota. The school portfolio breaks down into 11 combined, 4 high schools, a compact enough portfolio that families can compare every campus directly before they move, rent, or enrol. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Scott County.
The funding mix is 33.1% local, 64.2% state, and 2.6% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 35.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 69.9% White, 10.7% Hispanic or Latino, 10.2% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Swmetro Shakopee Special Ed, with a diversity index of 63.9/100.
Its largest campus is Swmetro Online Learning, enrolling 115 students (28% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Swmetro Passageways, at 1 students, a 115x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Swmetro Online Learning accounts for 23.8% of all Southwest Metro Intermediate 288 student enrollment
That concentration means Southwest Metro Intermediate 288-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates 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.
Southwest Metro Intermediate 288 school enrollment varies 115× across entities
Southwest Metro Intermediate 288 school enrollment ranges from 1 students (lowest) to 115 students (highest), a spread of 114 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Southwest Metro Intermediate 288 chronic absenteeism rate is 35.9% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Comparisons are relative to Southwest Metro Intermediate 288's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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