Prekindergarten · Special education · Grades PK

Ages 3-5 Early Childhood Special Ed, Cottage Grove, MN

Ages 3-5 Early Childhood Special Ed is a public prekindergarten school in Cottage Grove, part of South Washington County Schools. It enrolled 591 students in 2024-25, with 53.7 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 591
Teachers (FTE): 11.0
Students per teacher: 53.7
Grades: PK

This school's ratio is 36.8 higher than the district figure of 16.9. The Minnesota average across schools is 15.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school53.7

District16.9

Minnesota15.2

United States15.3

School details

Address: 8400 E Point Douglas Rd S, Cottage Grove, MN 55016
Phone: (651)425-6121
District: South Washington County Schools
County: Washington County
Level: Prekindergarten
Type: Special education
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Suburb: Large
NCES school ID: 273381001792

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 139
Reduced-price lunch: 32
Free or reduced-price lunch: 17128.9% of enrollment.
Direct certification: 138Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision: No

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.