Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 5
Discovery Community Elementary, Waite Park, MN
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 572
- Teachers (FTE)
- 43.0
- Students per teacher
- 13.3
- Grades
- PK to 5
This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 13.5. The Minnesota average across schools is 15.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 700 7th St S, Waite Park, MN 56387
- Phone
- (320)370-6180
- District
- St. Cloud Public School District
- County
- Stearns County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Midsize
- NCES school ID
- 273351002287
School meals
- Free lunch
- 409
- Reduced-price lunch
- 42
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 45178.8% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 351Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
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.
Related schools
Other elementary schools in St. Cloud Public School District
- Oak Hill Community Elementary 878 students
- Madison Elementary 704 students
- Talahi Community Elementary 701 students
- Westwood Elementary 531 students
- Clearview Elementary 401 students
- Lincoln Elementary 328 students
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
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.